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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 438 Interpretation of the 1993 Regulations

(1) Regulation 2 of the Money Laundering Regulations 1993 (interpretation) is amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (1), for the definition of "European institution" substitute -

""European institution" means an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in sub-paragraph (b) or (c) of paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 which qualifies for authorisation for the purposes of that Act under paragraph 12 of that Schedule;".

(3) In that paragraph, after the definition of "European institution" insert -

""home regulated activity", in relation to a European institution, means any activity listed in Annex 1 to the banking consolidation directive (the text of which is, for convenience set out in the Schedule to these Regulations) -

(a) in relation to which a supervisory authority in its home state has regulatory functions, and

(b) in the case of an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(c) of Schedule 3 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, it is carrying on in its home State;

"home state", in relation to a person incorporated in or formed under the law of another member State, means that State;".

(4) In that paragraph, for the definition of "insurance business" substitute -

""insurance business" means business which consists of effecting or carrying out contracts of long-term insurance".