
1 
This Order may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Control of Transfers of Business Done at Lloyd's) Order 2001 and comes into force on 1st December 2001.
2 
In this Order —
 “the Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
 “the Council” and “the Society” have the same meaning as in Lloyd’s Act 1982;
 “former underwriting member” has the meaning given by section 324(1) of the Act.
3 
The following provisions, that is to say—
(a) sections 104 and 107 to 114 of the Act;
(b) any regulations made under section 108 of the Act; and
(c) Part I of Schedule 12 to the Act;apply in relation to schemes for the transfer of the whole or any part of the business carried on by one or more members of the Society or former underwriting members (“the members concerned”) in the same way as they apply in relation to insurance business transfer schemes, but only if the conditions specified by article 4 are satisfied.
4 
The conditions referred to in article 3 are—
(a) that the scheme results in the business transferred being carried on from an establishment of the transferee in an EEA State;
(b) that the Council of Lloyd’s has by resolution authorised one person to act, in connection with the transfer for the members concerned, as transferor; and
(c) that a copy of the resolution has been given to the Authority.
5 

(1) The provisions which apply by virtue of paragraph (a) and (b) of article 3 do so as if—
(a) any reference to the authorised person concerned were a reference to the members concerned; and
(b) anything done in connection with the transfer by the person authorised in accordance with paragraph (a) of article 4 had been done by the members concerned for whom he acted.
(2) In the application of Part I of Schedule 12 to the Act to the members concerned, the conditions in sub-paragraphs (2)(a), (3)(a) and (4)(a) of paragraph 1 of that Schedule are treated as satisfied.
Nick Ainger
Tony McNulty
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
7th November 2001