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The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendments to Part 7) Regulations 2008
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
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These Regulations amend Part 7 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (“the Act”) which deals with schemes for the transfer of insurance and banking business.
Section 112 of the Act is amended by the insertion of new subsections (2A) to (2C) and a consequential amendment of subsection (9).
Subsections (2A) and (2B) make clear for the avoidance of doubt that the power of the court to make an order under section 112 is to be taken as always having included the power to transfer, for example, contracts which include provisions prohibiting their transfer or contracts in relation to which there is a query as to their transferability in the absence of consent of a counterparty or contracts where there is a contravention, liability or interference with a right or interest which arises as a result of the transfer.
New section 112A is inserted. The new section makes clear, again for the avoidance of doubt, that the specified entitlements arising as a result of something done or likely to be done by or under Part 7 of the Act will only be enforceable after the order under section 112(1) has been made and only insofar as the court makes provision to that effect in that order. These circumstances might be relevant, for example, in relation to the transfer of reinsurance contracts, if such transfer were sanctioned by the court, which are connected to insurance contracts being transferred under an insurance business transfer scheme. Section 112A(1) could be relevant, for example, where a counterparty of a bank or insurer has a right to terminate an agreement with the bank or insurer which is exercisable as a result of the bank or insurer stating its intention to pursue a banking or insurance business transfer scheme.
A full regulatory impact assessment has been produced for this instrument and is available from the Financial Stability and Risk Team, HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ and is on the HM Treasury’s web-site at www.hm-treasury.gov.uk.
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