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Article 54 Authorisation and designation to provide banking-type ancillary services

1. A CSD shall not itself provide any banking-type ancillary services set out in Section C of the Annex unless it has obtained an additional authorisation to provide such services in accordance with this Article.

2. A CSD that intends to settle the cash leg of all or part of its securities settlement system in accordance with Article 40(2) or otherwise wishes to provide any banking-type ancillary services referred to in paragraph 1 shall be authorised either:

(a) to offer such services itself under the conditions specified in this Article; or

(b) to designate for that purpose one or more credit institutions with permission to accept deposits under Part 4A of FSMA.

3. Where a CSD seeks to provide any banking-type ancillary services from within the same legal entity as the legal entity operating the securities settlement system the authorisation referred to in paragraph 2 shall be granted only where the following conditions are met:

(a) the CSD is permitted under Part 4A of FSMA to carry on any regulated activity which is carried on for the purposes of, or in connection with, such services;