Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005

Application of certain provisions of UCITS Regulations.

18.—(1) Regulations 63, 77 to 85 and 98 to 105 of the UCITS Regulations shall apply to a common contractual fund as they apply to the bodies to which those Regulations relate subject to the following modifications and any other necessary modifications—

(a) a reference in those Regulations to a term or expression specified in the second column of the Table to this section at any reference number shall be construed, where the context admits, as a reference to the term or expression specified in the third column of the said Table at that reference number, and

(b) references to cognate terms or expressions in those Regulations shall be construed accordingly,

(c) references to “the articles” and “the Directive” in those Regulations shall be disregarded,

(d) the words “and the other information provided for in Schedule 2 to these Regulations” in Regulation 79 and the first sentence of Regulation 80 of those Regulations shall be disregarded and Regulation 80 shall have effect as if there were inserted the words “in the half-yearly report” after the words “the figures”,

(e) paragraph (4)(d) of Regulation 102 shall be disregarded,

(f) references to “simplified prospectus” in Regulations 82 and 83 shall be disregarded.

(2) In subsection (1) “common contractual fund” includes a common contractual fund the authorisation of which stands revoked under Regulation 102 of the UCITS Regulations as applied and adapted by this section.

TABLE

Ref. No.

Term or expression referred to in UCITS Regulations

Construction of term or expression for purposes of this section

(1)

(2)

(3)

1.

“Regulation 14”

section 11 of the Investment Funds, Compan- ies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005

2.

“Regulation 59”

section 14 of the Investment Funds, Compan- ies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005

3.

“these Regulations”

Part 2 of the Investment Funds, Companies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005

4.

“repurchase”

“purchase”

5.

“UCITS”

“common contractual fund”

6.

section 8 of the Unit Trusts Act 1990

section 13 of the Investment Funds, Compan- ies and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2005