1. For the purpose of this Regulation:

"alternative investment fund manager" has the meaning in regulation 4(1) of the Alternative Investment Managers Regulations 2013;

"beneficial owner" has the meaning given to it in regulation 3(1) of the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017;

"central counterparty" or "CCP" means a legal person that interposes itself between the counterparties to the contracts traded on one or more financial markets, becoming the buyer to every seller and the seller to every buyer, which is authorised under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;