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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 8 December 2017 - onwards
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Regulation 43 The cells

(1) The protected cell company may have one or more cells.

(2) A cell -

(a) is part of the protected cell company; and

(b) does not have legal personality distinct from the protected cell company.

(3) The purpose of the cells is to -

(a) assume risk from undertakings;

(b) issue investments to investors to fund the protected cell company's exposure to the risks it has assumed;

(c) hold the proceeds of the sale of those investments;

(d) where permitted by the protected cell company's instrument of incorporation, enter into arrangements between cells (see regulations 68 to 74); and

(e) carry out any other functions conferred on the cells by the protected cell company's instrument of incorporation.

(4) A protected cell company may carry out the activity referred to in paragraph (3)(c) by using a trustee or nominee.