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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 December 2001 - onwards
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Article 397 Interpretation of the 1989 Regulations

(1) The Consumer Credit (Advertisements) Regulations 1989 are amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (2) of regulation 1 (citation, commencement, interpretation and revocation), after the definition of "the APR" insert -

""authorised deposit taker" means -

(a) a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to accept deposits, or

(b) an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 3 to that Act which has permission under paragraph 15 of that Schedule (as a result of qualifying for authorisation under paragraph 12(1)) to accept deposits,

but sub-paragraph (a) does not include a person who is a credit union within the meaning of the Credit Unions Act 1979 [ 1979 c. 34. ] or the Credit Unions (Northern Ireland) Order 1985 [NI 1985/12.], or a specially authorised friendly society within the meaning of section 7(1)(f) of the Friendly Societies Act 1974 [1974 c. 46.];".

(3) In that paragraph, for the definition of "contract of insurance" substitute -

""contract of insurance" means a contract of insurance the effecting or carrying out of which, by way of business, constitutes the carrying on of a regulated activity within the meaning of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;".