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(In COMP) (in accordance with the compensation transitionals order) a person who was, at any time before commencement, authorised under section 3 or 4 of the Insurance Companies Act 1982 to carry on insurance business of any class in the United Kingdom.
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(in relation to a firm) a person resident in the United Kingdom who is authorised to act generally, and to accept service of any document, on behalf of the firm.
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(as defined in section 237(3) of the Act (Other definitions)) a unit trust scheme which is authorised for the purposes of the Act by an authorisation order.
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(in relation to any undertaking in a consolidation group, sub-group or other group of persons) an undertaking complying with the following conditions:(a) its principal activity consists of:(i) owning or managing property; or(ii) managing data-processing services; or(iii) any other similar activity;(b) the activity in (a) is ancillary to the principal activity of one or more insurance undertakings; and(c) those insurance undertakings are also members of that consolidation group, sub-group or other group of persons.
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a professional firm which is an authorised person.
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(in accordance with regulation 2(1) of the Payment Services Regulations) a person included by the FCA in the Financial Services Register as an authorised payment institution pursuant to regulation 4(1)(a), or a person deemed to have been granted authorisation by virtue of regulation 121 of the Payment Services Regulations.
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(in accordance with section 31 of the Act (Authorised persons)) one of the following:(b) an incoming EEA firm;(c) an incoming Treaty firm;(d) a UCITS qualifier;(e) an ICVC;(f) the Society of Lloyd's.(see also GEN 2.2.18 R for the position of an authorisedpartnership or unincorporated association which is dissolved.)
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a management company within the meaning of Article 2(1)(b) of the UCITS Directive, as well as an undertaking the registered office of which is outside the EEA and which would require authorisation in accordance with Article 6(1) of the UCITS Directive if it had its registered office within the EEA.
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the regulated activity, specified in article 51(1)(c) of the Regulated Activities Order (Establishing etc a collective investment scheme), of acting as the depositary or sole director of an open-ended investment company.
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(a) a reinsurance to close effected before 1 January 2005; or(b) an agreement under which members of a syndicate in one syndicate year ("the reinsured members") agree with the members of that syndicate in a later syndicate year or the members of one other syndicate ("the reinsuring members") that the reinsuring members will discharge, or procure the discharge of, or indemnify the reinsured members against, all known and unknown insurance business liabilities of the reinsured members arising out of the insurance business carried on by the reinsured members in that syndicate year that is:(i) effected after 1 January 2005; and(ii) not a balance transfer between two syndicate years where the syndicate has only one member and the member is the same in each of those years; or(c) an agreement under which members of a syndicate in one syndicate year ("the reinsured members") agree with a subsidiary of the Society that that subsidiary will discharge, or procure the discharge of, or indemnify the reinsured members against, all known and unknown insurance business liabilities of the reinsured members arising out of the insurance business carried on by the reinsured members in that syndicate year ("the reinsured liabilities") and where:(i) that subsidiary is wholly owned by the Society and if from time to time the subsidiary has an asset or cash flow deficiency such that the subsidiary is unable to meet any of the liabilities which it has reinsured, the Society is legally obliged to pay to the subsidiary a sum equal to that deficiency; and(ii) at the effective date of the agreement, the relevant syndicate year has been open for at least two years after the date at which it would normally have been closed in accordance with the policies and practices in relation to the syndicate concerned.
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an AIF which is an authorised fund.
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the director of an ICVC who is the authorised corporate director of the ICVC in accordance with COLL 6.5.3 R (Appointment of an ACD) including, if relevant, an EEA UCITS management companyor incoming EEA AIFM.
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an exemption from articles 7, 13 and 14 of the short selling regulation for the activities of an authorised primary dealer pursuant to article 17 of the short selling regulation.
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(as defined in article 2(1)(n) of the short selling regulation) a natural or legal person who has signed an agreement with a sovereign issuer or who has been formally recognised as a primary dealer by or on behalf of a sovereign issuer and who, in accordance with that agreement or recognition, has committed to dealing as principal in connection with primary and secondary market operations relating to debt issued by that sovereign issuer.
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