Article 279 Obtaining a money transfer by deception: interpretationI1

Section 15B^f1 of the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 (obtaining a money transfer by deception: interpretation) is amended as follows.

In subsection (4), the words after paragraph (b) are repealed.

After that subsection insert—

“(4A)

References in subsection (4) to a deposit must be read with—

(a)

section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;

(b)

any relevant order under that section; and

(c)

Schedule 2 to that Act,

but any restriction on the meaning of deposit which arises from the identity of the person making it is to be disregarded.”.