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(as defined in section 237(1) of the Act (Other definitions)) a collective investment scheme under which the property in question is held on trust for the participants, except that it does not include an authorised contractual scheme.
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(in PR) (as defined in Article 2.1(p) of the prospectus directive) securities issued by a collective investment undertaking as representing the rights of the participants in such an undertaking over its assets.
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(a) an authorised fund authorised by the FCA in accordance with the UCITS Directive:(i) with the sole object of collective investment in transferable securities or in other liquid financial instruments permitted by COLL 5.2 (General investment powers and limits for UCITS schemes) of capital raised from the public and which operates on the principle of risk-spreading; and(ii) with units which are, at the request of unitholders, repurchased or redeemed, directly or indirectly, out of the scheme's assets; and for this purpose action taken by or on behalf of a scheme to ensure that the stock exchange value of its units does not significantly vary from their net asset value is to be regarded as equivalent to that repurchase or redemption; or(b) an umbrella, each of whose sub-funds would be a UCITS scheme if it had a separate authorisation order;unless:(c) [deleted](d) the scheme'sunits under its instrument constituting the scheme, may be sold only to the public in non-EEA States; or(e) the scheme (other than a master UCITS which has at least two feeder UCITS as unitholders) raises capital without promoting the sale of its units to the public within the EEA or any part of it.[Note: article 1 of the UCITS Directive]
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(1) (in relation to a collective investment scheme) the investment, specified in article 81 of the Regulated Activities Order (Units in a collective investment scheme) and defined in section 237(2) of the Act (Other definitions)), which is the right or interest (however described) of the participants in a collective investment scheme; this includes:(a) (in relation to an AUT) a unit representing the rights or interests of the unitholders in the AUT;(aa) (in relation to an ACS) a unit representing the rights or interests of the unitholders in the ACS; and(2) (in relation to an alternative investment fund) the right or interest (however described) of an investor in an alternative investment fund.
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England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland (but not the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man).
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arrangements for a newly formed AUT or ACSunder which:(a) the whole or part of the property of a body corporate (or a collective investment scheme) becomes the first scheme property of the AUT or ACS; and(b) the holders of:become the first participants in the AUTor ACS.
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(in LR) a collective investment scheme which is neither a recognised scheme nor a scheme that is constituted as an authorised unit trust scheme or authorised contractual scheme.
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(in PR) (as defined in the PD Regulation) a collective investment undertaking invested in one or more collective investment undertakings, the asset of which is composed of separate class(es) or designation(s) of securities.
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(a) (in relation to an ICVC, ACS or an AUT as appropriate, and subject to COLL 4.4.4 R (Special meaning of unitholder in COLL 4.4)):(i) (in relation a unit which is represented by a bearer certificate) the person who holds that certificate; or(ii) (in relation to a unit that is not represented by a bearer certificate) the person whose name is entered on the register in relation to that unit; or(b) (in relation to a unit in collective investment scheme not within (a)):