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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 600 Construction of the 2000 Order - "relevant institution"

(1) Article 2 of the Iraq (United Nations Sanctions) (Overseas Territories) Order 2000 (interpretation) is amended as follows.

(2) The existing text is numbered paragraph (1).

(3) In paragraph (1), in the definition of "relevant institution" -

(a) for paragraph (b) substitute -

"(b) a person who may lawfully accept deposits in or from within the Territory by way of business;";

(b) for paragraph (c) substitute -

"(c) an EEA firm of the kind mentioned in paragraph 5(b) of Schedule 3 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, which has lawfully established a branch in Gibraltar for the purpose of accepting deposits;".

(4) After paragraph (1) insert -

"(2) For the purpose of the definition of "relevant institution" in paragraph (1) -

(a) the activity of accepting deposits has the meaning given in any relevant order under section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; and

(b) a person is not regarded as accepting deposits by way of business if -

(i) he does not hold himself out as accepting deposits on a day to day basis, and