Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 1516
NATIONAL DEBT
The Exchange of Securities (General) (Amendment) Rules 2000
Made
7th June 2000
Coming into force
1st July 2000
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 14(3) of the National Loans Act 1968( 1 ) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Rules:
Title and commencement
1. These Rules may be cited as the Exchange of Securities (General) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into force on 1st July 2000.
Amendment
2. In Rule 6(1A) of the Exchange of Securities (General) Rules 1979( 2 ), for the words from “in the name of” up to “exempt transfer” substitute “ and at the time of acceptance that holding is transferable by means of either an exempt transfer or, in accordance with the Uncertificated Securities Regulations 1995( 3 ) as amended from time to time, a relevant system operated by an Operator within the meaning of those Regulations”.
Bob Ainsworth
Greg Pope
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
7th June 2000
1968 c. 13 : section 14 was amended for certain purposes by the National Loans Act 1968, Schedule 5A, paragraph 5 (Schedule 5A was inserted by Finance Act 1998 (c. 36) , Schedule 26, paragraph 1(3)).