# The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005, Paragraph 9: Providing funeral plan contracts


(1) Entering as provider into a qualifying funeral plan contract is a controlled activity.
(1A) Carrying out a qualifying funeral plan contract as provider is a controlled activity.
(2) A “qualifying funeral plan contract” is a contract under which—
(a) a person (“the customer”) makes one or more payments to another person (“the provider”);
(b) the provider undertakes to provide, or to secure that another person provides, a funeral in the United Kingdom for the customer (or some other person who is living at the date when the contract is entered into) on his death; and
(c) the provider is a person who carries on a regulated activity specified in article 59 of the Regulated Activities Order and includes a person who has assumed the undertaking referred to in article 59(2)(b) of that Order as a result of the novation, assignment or transfer by operation of law of an existing qualifying funeral plan contract.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1529/schedule/1/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-financial-promotion-order-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-9
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