# The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001, Article 72E: Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Funds

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) A body corporate of a type specified in paragraph (7) does not carry on the activity of the kind specified by article 21 by entering as agent into a transaction on behalf of the participants of a Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Fund.
(2) There are excluded from article 25(1) and (2) arrangements, made by a body corporate of a type specified in paragraph (7), for or with a view to a transaction which is or is to be entered into by or on behalf of the participants in a Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Fund.
(3) There is excluded from article 37 any activity, carried on by a body corporate of a type specified in paragraph (7), which consists in the managing of assets belonging to the participants in a Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Fund.
(4) There is excluded from article 40 any activity, carried on by a body corporate of a type specified in paragraph (7), in respect of assets belonging to the participants in a Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Fund.
(5) A body corporate of a type specified in paragraph (7) does not carry on the activity of the kind specified in article 51ZA, 51ZC or 51ZE where it carries on the activity of establishing, operating or winding up a Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Fund.
(6) A body corporate of a type specified in paragraph (7) does not carry on the activity of the kind specified in article 53 where it is advising the participants in a Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Fund on investments to be made by or on behalf of the participants of that Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Fund.
(7) The type of body corporate specified is a limited company—
(i) which operates a Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Fund; and
(ii) the members of which are participants in the Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Fund operated by that limited company and between them have invested at least 50 per cent of the total investment in that Business Angel-led Enterprise Capital Fund excluding any investment made by the Secretary of State.
(8) For the purposes of paragraph (7), “a limited company” means a body corporate with limited liability which is a company or firm formed under the law of any part of the United Kingdom and having its registered office, central administration or principal place of business in the United Kingdom.
(9) Nothing in this article has the effect of excluding a body corporate from the application of the Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017, in so far as those Regulations would have applied to it but for this article.
(10) Nothing in this article has the effect of excluding a body corporate from the application of section 397 of the Act (misleading statements and practices), in so far as that section would have applied to it but for this article.
(11) This article is subject to article 4(4).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/544/article/72E (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-72E
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