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Article 22 Refusal to open an account

United Kingdom

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

1.

The national administrator F1must verify whether the information and documents provided for account opening are complete, up-to-date, accurate and true.

2.

F2The national administrator may refuse to open an account:

(a)

if the information and documents provided are incomplete, out-of-date or otherwise inaccurate or false;

(b)

if the prospective account holder, or, if it is a legal person, any of the directors of the prospective account holder, is under investigation or has been convicted in the preceding five years for fraud involving allowances or Kyoto units, money laundering, terrorist financing or other serious crimes for which the account may be an instrument;

(c)

if the national administrator has reasonable grounds to believe that the accounts may be used for fraud involving F3... Kyoto units, money laundering, terrorist financing or other serious crimes;

F4(d)

if the national administrator is not satisfied that the proposed account holder is a fit and proper person to hold such an account.

F53.

If the national administrator refuses to open an account, the person requesting the account opening may appeal against the decision in accordance with Article 110c.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Word in Art. 22(1) substituted (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(13)(a)

F2

Words in Art. 22(2) substituted (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(13)(b)(i)

F3

Words in Art. 22(2)(c) omitted (1.5.2021) by virtue of The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(13)(b)(ii)

F4

Art. 22(2)(d) substituted (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(13)(b)(iii)

F5

Art. 22(3) substituted (1.5.2021) by The Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Kyoto Protocol Registry) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/511), regs. 1, 4(13)(c)