Paragraph 1 Eligible companiesF1

A company is “eligible” for the purposes of this Part unless it is excluded from being eligible by any of the following—

• paragraph 2 (current or recent insolvency procedure);

• F2paragraph 2A (private registered providers of social housing);

• F3paragraph 2B (a registered social landlord under Part 2 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010);

• paragraph 3 (insurance companies);

• paragraph 4 (banks);

• paragraph 5 (electronic money institutions);

• paragraph 6 (investment banks and investment firms);

• paragraph 7 (market contracts, market charges, etc);

• paragraph 8 (participants in designated systems);

• paragraph 9 (payment institutions);

• paragraph 10 (operators of payment systems, infrastructure providers etc);

• paragraph 11 (recognised investment exchanges, clearing houses and CSDs);

• paragraph 12 (securitisation companies);

• paragraph 13 (parties to capital market arrangements);

• paragraph 15 (public-private partnership project companies);

• paragraph 18 (certain overseas companies).