Statutory Instruments
2001 No. 2634
FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Insolvency) (Definition of “Insurer”) Order 2001
Made
20th July 2001
Laid before Parliament
20th July 2001
Coming into force
in accordance with article 1
The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 355(2) and 428(3) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000( 1 ) (“the Act”), hereby make the following Order:
1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Insolvency) (Definition of “Insurer”) Order 2001 and comes into force on the day on which section 19 of the Act comes into force.
(2) In this Order, the “Regulated Activities Order” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001( 2 ).
2. In Part XXIV of the Act (insolvency)( 3 ), except section 360 (administration orders in relation to insurers), “insurer” means any person who is carrying on a regulated activity of the kind specified by article 10(1) or (2) of the Regulated Activities Order (effecting and carrying out contracts of insurance) but who is not—
(a) exempt from the general prohibition in respect of that regulated activity;
(b) a friendly society; or
(c) a person who effects or carries out contracts of insurance all of which fall within paragraphs 14 to 18 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Regulated Activities Order in the course of, or for the purposes of, a banking business.
Tony McNulty
Graham Stringer
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
20th July 2001