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Version date: 1 December 2001 - onwards
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Article 595 Interpretation of the 2000 Regulations: general

(1) In paragraph (3) of regulation 1 of the Stakeholder Pension Schemes Regulations 2000 (Citation, commencement and interpretation) -

(a) the definition of "insurance company" is revoked, and in the same place insert -

""insurer" means -

(a) a person who has permission under Part 4 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to effect or carry out contracts of insurance, or

(b) an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(d) 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 of that Schedule) to effect or carry out contracts of insurance;"; and

(b) for the definition of "securities" substitute -

""securities" means investments of the following kinds -

(a) shares,

(b) instruments creating or acknowledging indebtedness,

(c) government and public securities,

(d) instruments giving entitlements to investments,

(e) certificates representing securities,

but does not include shares in a unit trust;".

(2) After paragraph (3) of that regulation insert -