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Paragraph 20

United Kingdom

(1)

Paragraphs 12 F1, 13 and 13Aabove do not apply to anything done by a body corporate, a body corporate connected with it or a relevant trustee for the purpose of enabling or facilitating transactions in shares in or debentures of the first-mentioned body between or for the benefit of any of the persons mentioned in sub-paragraph (2) below or the holding of such shares or debentures by or for the benefit of any such persons.

(2)

The persons referred to in sub-paragraph (1) above are—

(a)

the bona fide employees or former employees of the body corporate or of another body corporate in the same group; or

(b)

the wives, husbands, widows, widowers, or children or step-children under the age of eighteen of such employees or former employees.

(3)

In this paragraph “a relevant trustee” means a person holding shares in or debentures of a body corporate as trustee in pursuance of arrangements made for the purpose mentioned in sub-paragraph (1) above by, or by a body corporate connected with, that body corporate.

(4)

In this paragraph “shares” and “debentures” include any investment falling within paragraph 1 or 2 above and also include any investment falling within paragraph 4 or 5 above so far as relating to those paragraphs or any investment falling within paragraph 11 above so far as relating to paragraph 1, 2, 4 or 5.

(5)

For the purposes of this paragraph a body corporate is connected with another body corporate if—

(a)

they are in the same group; or

(b)

one is entitled, either alone or with any other body corporate in the same group, to exercise or control the exercise of a majority of the voting rights attributable to the share capital which are exercisable in all circumstances at any general meeting of the other body corporate or of its holding company.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 1 para. 20(1) substituted (1.6.1997) by S.I. 1996/2958, art. 6

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (1.12.2001) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3649), arts. 1, 3(1)(c) (with savings in art. 292)

Notes on Schedule 1

Modifications

C1

Sch. 1 amended by S.I. 1988/496, art. 4

C2

Sch. 1 amended by S.I. 1988/803, art. 5

Notes on Part III

Modifications

C1

SCh. 1 Pt. III modified (1.1.1996) by S.,I. 1995/3271, arts. 5