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2 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] Definition of investment company and construction of references to nominal value of shares, etc Application of Parts 1 to 14 to investment companies Application of Part 17 to investment companies Adaptation of certain provisions of UCITS Regulations CHAPTER 2 Incorporation and registration Way of forming an investment company Investment company to carry on activity in the State The form of an investment company s constitution Supplemental provisions in relation to constitution and continuance in force of existing memorandum and articles Status of existing investment company Authorisation by Central Bank Powers of Central Bank Default of investment company or failure in performance of its investments CHAPTER 3 Share capital Power of company to purchase own shares Treatment of purchased shares Statutory financial statements CHAPTER 4 Financial statements Requirement for corporate governance statement and modification of certain provisions of Parts 5 and 6 as they apply to investment companies CHAPTER 5 Winding up Circumstances in which company may be wound up by the court Restoration by the court CHAPTER 6 Restoration CHAPTER 7 Public offers of securities, prevention of market abuse, etc Application of Chapters 1, 2 and 4 of Part 23 to investment companies 61
3 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] CHAPTER 8 Umbrella funds and sub-funds Segregated liability of investment company sub-funds Requirements to be complied with by, and other matters respecting, an umbrella fund to which section 1405(1) applies Further matters respecting an umbrella fund to which section 1405(1) applies Definitions (Chapter 9) CHAPTER 9 Migration of funds Registration documents meaning Continuation of foreign investment company Supplemental provisions in relation to section Definitions for the purposes of de-registration provisions contained in sections 1413 and De-registration of companies when continued under the law of place outside the State Supplemental provisions in relation to section Statutory declaration as to solvency 62
4 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] PART 24 INVESTMENT COMPANIES CHAPTER 1 Preliminary and interpretation Interpretation (Part 24) (1) In this Part investment company has the meaning given to it by section 1386; Minister means the Minister for Finance; management company means a company designated by an investment company to undertake the management of the investment company; property means real or personal property of whatever kind (including securities); sub-fund means a portfolio of assets and liabilities maintained by an investment company in accordance with its articles and which has been approved by the Central Bank as a separate sub-fund of the investment company; UCITS Regulations means the European Communities (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) Regulations 2011 (S.I. No. 352 of 2011); umbrella fund means an investment company which has one or more sub-funds and which is authorised by the Central Bank pursuant to section (2) For the purposes of the application by this Part of certain provisions of the UCITS Regulations to investment companies, those provisions shall be read as one with this Part. Definition of investment company and construction of references to nominal value of shares, etc (1) In this Part investment company means a company (not being a company to which the UCITS Regulations apply) that is (a) a public limited company, the sole object of which is stated in its memorandum to be the collective investment of its funds in property with the aim of spreading investment risk and giving members of the company the benefit of the results of the management of its funds; and (b) the articles or memorandum of which provide (i) that the actual value of the paid up share capital of the company shall at all times be equal to the value of the assets of any kind of the company after the deduction of its liabilities; and (ii) subject to subsection (2), that the shares of the company shall, at the request of any of the holders thereof, be purchased by the company directly or 1049
5 PT.24 S.1386 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] indirectly out of the company s assets. (2) To the extent as may be approved and subject to such conditions as may be applied by the Central Bank, a company that otherwise falls within subsection (1) shall be regarded as an investment company within the meaning of this Part notwithstanding that the articles or memorandum of it do not provide for the matters referred to in subsection (1)(b)(ii). (3) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b)(ii), action taken by an investment company to ensure that the stock exchange value of its shares does not deviate from its net asset value by more than a percentage specified in its articles (which deviation shall not be so specified as greater than 5 per cent) shall be regarded as the equivalent of purchase of its shares by the investment company. (4) The memorandum or articles of an investment company shall be regarded as providing for the matters referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) notwithstanding the inclusion in the memorandum or articles with respect thereto of incidental or supplementary provisions. (5) A reference in any provision of this Act to the nominal value of an issued or allotted share in, or of the issued or allotted share capital of, a company shall, in the case of an investment company, be read as a reference to the value of the consideration for which the share or share capital (as the case may be) has been issued or allotted. Application of Parts 1 to 14 to investment companies (1) The provisions of Parts 1 to 14 apply to an investment company save to the extent that they are (a) disapplied to public limited companies by section 1002; or (b) disapplied by subsection (3) or modified by another provision of this Part. (2) For the purposes of that application, section 10(1) shall have effect as if it read: (1) Unless expressly provided otherwise, a reference in Parts 2 to 14 to a company is a reference to an investment company.. (3) In addition to those of them disapplied, as mentioned in subsection (1)(a), the provisions of Parts 1 to 14 specified in the Table to this section shall not apply to an investment company. (4) The specification in the foregoing Table of a provision (a specified provision ) of Parts 1 to 14 also operates to disapply to an investment company any other provision of those Parts (notwithstanding that it is not specified in that Table) that makes consequential, incidental or supplemental provision on, or in relation to, the specified provision. Table Subject matter Nominal value of shares Provision disapplied Section 66(1) and (2)(a) 1050
6 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] PT.24 S.1387 Subject matter Provision disapplied Allotment of shares Section 69(3) and (6) to (10) Allotment of shares Section 70(1), (2), (3), (7), (8), (10) and (11) Payment of shares Section 71(2), (3) and (5) Financial assistance Section 82 Variation of company capital Section 83(3), (4) and (5) Reduction of company capital Section 84 Notice to Registrar of certain alterations in share capital Restriction on company acquiring its own shares Sections 92 and 93 Sections 102 and 103 Acquisition of own shares Sections 105 to 107 and 109 to 112 Holding by subsidiary of shares in its holding company Restrictions on distribution of profits and assets Procedure for declarations, payments, etc. of dividends and other things Sections 114 to 116 Sections 117 to 123 Sections 124 and 125 Bonus issues Section 126 Access to documents during business hours Section 127 Audit committees Section 167 Inspection of registers, provision of copies of information in them, etc. Directors compliance statement and related statement Holding of own shares or shares in holding company Directors report: acquisition or disposal of own shares Signature of statutory auditor s report to appear on certain copies Sections 215 to 217 Section 225 Section 320(1) Section 328 Section 337(4) and (5)(b) Annual return and documents annexed to it Chapter 13 of Part 6 Exclusions, exemptions and special arrangements with regard to public disclosure of financial information Chapter 14 of Part 6 Audit exemption Chapter 15 of Part 6 Special audit exemption for dormant companies Company may be required to contribute to debts of related companies Chapter 16 of Part 6 Section
7 PT.24 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] Application of Part 17 to investment companies (1) The provisions of Part 17 apply to an investment company save to the extent that they are disapplied by subsection (3) or (4). (2) For the purposes of that application, references in Part 17 to a public limited company (however expressed) shall be read as references to a public limited company that is an investment company. (3) The definitions of authorised minimum and authorised share capital in section 1000(1) shall not apply to an investment company. (4) The provisions of Part 17 specified in the Table to this section shall not apply to an investment company. Subject matter Ministerial power in relation to a defined expression Way of forming a PLC and form of its constitution Restriction on commencement of business by a PLC Power to allot certain securities and notification of allotments Table Section 1000(2) Provision disapplied Section 1004(1) to (4) and sections 1005 to 1007 Section 1010 Section 1021(3), (4) and (8) Pre-emption rights Sections 1022 and 1023 Expert s report on non-cash consideration (requirements in respect thereof and dispensations therefrom) Treatment of shares held by or on behalf of a PLC Application of certain provisions of section 82(6) in relation to PLCs Interests in shares: disclosure of individual and group acquisitions Acquisition of own shares and certain acquisitions by subsidiaries Sections 1028 to 1035 Sections 1040 and 1041 Section 1043 Chapter 4 of Part 17 Chapter 5 of Part 17 Distribution by a PLC Chapter 6 of Part 17 Application of section 167 to PLC that is not a public-interest entity under S.I. No. 220 of 2010 Additional rights of shareholders in certain PLCs (provisions implementing Shareholders Rights Directive 2007/36/EC) Section 1097 Sections 1099 to
8 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] PT.24 S.1388 Subject matter Obligation to convene extraordinary general meeting in event of serious loss of capital Section 1111 Reorganisations Chapter 13 of Part 17 Provision disapplied Adaptation of certain provisions of UCITS Regulations Regulations 17(11), 40(2), 42(4)(d), 104(2), 125 to 127, 129 to 131, 134(1) to 134(9), 135(1) and 135(2) of the UCITS Regulations apply to an investment company as they apply to the bodies to which those Regulations relate subject to the following modifications (a) a reference in those Regulations to a term or expression specified in the second column of the Table to this section at any reference number shall be read, where the context admits, as a reference to the term or expression specified in the third column of that Table at that reference number; and (b) references to cognate terms or expressions in those Regulations shall be read accordingly. Table Ref. No. (1) Term or expression referred to in UCITS Regulations repurchase (2) these Regulations UCITS unit unit-holder Construction of term or expression for purposes of this section purchase (3) Part 24 of the Companies Act 2014 investment company share shareholder CHAPTER 2 Incorporation and registration Way of forming an investment company (1) An investment company may be formed for any lawful purpose by any person or persons subscribing to a constitution and complying with the relevant provisions of (a) Chapter 2 of Part 2, as applied by this Part; and (b) this Part; in relation to registration of an investment company. (2) Without prejudice to the means by which an investment company may be formed 1053
9 PT.24 S.1390 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] under the relevant provisions referred to in subsection (1), a company may be registered as an investment company by means of (a) the re-registration, or registration, as an investment company of a body corporate pursuant to Part 20 or 22; (b) the merger of 2 or more bodies corporate pursuant to Chapter 16 of Part 17; (c) the division of a body corporate pursuant to Chapter 17 of Part 17; (d) the continuance, as an investment company, pursuant to Chapter 9, of a legal entity de-registering as a company in another jurisdiction; or (e) the merger operation provided for by the European Communities (Cross-Border Mergers) Regulations 2008 (S.I. No. 157 of 2008). (3) The liability of a member of an investment company at any time shall be limited to the amount, if any, unpaid on the shares registered in the member s name at that time. (4) Subsection (3) is without prejudice to any other liability to which a member may be subject as provided by this Act. Investment company to carry on activity in the State An investment company shall not be formed and registered unless it appears to the Registrar that the company, when registered, will carry on an activity in the State, being an activity that is mentioned in its memorandum. The form of an investment company s constitution (1) Subject to subsection (3), the constitution of an investment company shall be in the form of a memorandum of association and articles of association which together are referred to in this Part as a constitution. (2) The memorandum of association of an investment company shall state (a) its name; (b) that it is a public limited company registered under this Part; (c) its object as specified in section 1386(1)(a); (d) that the liability of its members is limited; and (e) in respect of its share capital (i) that the share capital of the company shall be equal to the value for the time being of the issued share capital of the company; (ii) the division of that share capital into a specified number of shares without assigning any nominal value thereto; and (iii) that the issued share capital of the company for the time being shall not be less than a minimum amount nor more than a maximum amount specified in the memorandum. 1054
10 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] PT.24 S.1392 (3) The constitution of an investment company shall (a) in addition to the matters specified in subsection (2), state the number of shares (which shall not be less than one) taken by each subscriber to the constitution; (b) be in accordance with the form set out in Schedule 16 or as near thereto as circumstances permit; (c) be printed in an entire format, that is to say the memorandum and articles shall be contained in the one document, being a document either in legible form or (as long as it is capable of being reproduced in legible form) in non-legible form; and (d) either (i) be signed by each subscriber in the presence of at least one witness who shall attest the signature; or (ii) be authenticated in the manner referred to in section 888. (4) Where, subsequent to the registration of the constitution, an amendment of the memorandum of association is made affecting the matter of share capital, or another matter, referred to in subsection (2), that subsection shall be read as requiring the memorandum to state the matter as it stands in consequence of that amendment. Supplemental provisions in relation to constitution and continuance in force of existing memorandum and articles (1) This section (a) contains provisions as to the articles of an investment company; (b) provides that, in certain circumstances, a default position shall obtain in relation to the articles of an investment company; and (c) continues in force the memorandum and articles of an investment company to which Part XIII of the Act of 1990 applies. (2) In this section mandatory provision means a provision of any of Parts 1 to 14 or Part 17 (as applied by this Part) or of this Part that is not an optional provision; optional provision means a provision of any of Parts 1 to 14 or Part 17 (as applied by this Part) or of this Part that (a) contains a statement to the effect, or is governed by provision elsewhere to the effect, that the provision applies save to the extent that the constitution provides otherwise or unless the constitution states otherwise; or (b) is otherwise of such import. (3) The articles of an investment company (a) shall contain such regulations in relation to the investment company with respect to such aspects of the activity of collective investment referred to in section 1386(1)(a), or matters related thereto, as are deemed appropriate; and 1055
11 PT.24 S.1393 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] (b) may contain other regulations in relation to the investment company. (4) So far as the articles of an investment company do not exclude or modify an optional provision, that optional provision shall apply in relation to the investment company. (5) The memorandum and articles of an investment company to which Part XIII of the Act of 1990 applies and registered before the commencement of this section shall, save to the extent that they are inconsistent with a mandatory provision, continue in force but may be altered or added to under and in accordance with the conditions under which memorandums or articles, whenever registered, are permitted by this Act to be altered or added to. (6) References in the provisions of a memorandum or articles so continued in force to any provision of the prior Companies Acts shall be read as references to the corresponding provision of this Act. (7) To the extent that an investment company to which Part XIII of the Act of 1990 applies was, immediately before the commencement of this section, governed by the regulations of Part I of Table A in the First Schedule to the Act of 1963, it shall, after that commencement, continue to be governed by those regulations but (a) this is save to the extent that those regulations are inconsistent with a mandatory provision; (b) those regulations may be altered or added to under and in accordance with the conditions under which articles, whenever registered, are permitted by this Act to be altered or added to; and (c) references in the regulations to any provision of the prior Companies Acts shall be read as references to the corresponding provision of this Act. Status of existing investment company (1) In this section existing investment company means an investment company to which Part XIII of the Act of 1990 applies and which (a) was incorporated under the prior Companies Acts; and (b) is in existence immediately before the commencement of this section. (2) An existing investment company shall, on and from the commencement of this section, continue in existence and be deemed to be an investment company to which this Part applies. Authorisation by Central Bank (1) An investment company shall not carry on business in the State unless it has been authorised to do so by the Central Bank on the basis of criteria approved by the Minister. (2) A person shall not carry on business on behalf of an investment company, in so far as relates to the purchase or sale of the shares of the investment company, unless the investment company has been authorised in the manner referred to in subsection (1). 1056
12 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] PT.24 S.1395 (3) The Central Bank shall not authorise an investment company to carry on business in the State unless the company has paid up share capital which, in the opinion of the Bank, will be sufficient to enable it to conduct its business effectively and meet its liabilities. (4) An application by an investment company for the authorisation referred to in subsection (1) shall be made in writing to the Central Bank and contain such information as the Bank may specify for the purpose of determining the application (including such additional information as the Bank may specify in the course of determining the application). (5) Where the Central Bank proposes to grant an authorisation to an investment company under this section and the Bank is satisfied that the company will raise capital by providing facilities for the direct or indirect participation by the public in the profits and income of the company, the Bank shall, in granting the authorisation, designate the company as a specially designated investment company which may raise capital in that manner, and specially designated company in this section and section 1396 shall be read accordingly. (6) An existing investment company (within the meaning of section 1394) that, immediately before the commencement of this section, is a designated company within the meaning of section 256(5) of the Act of 1990, shall be regarded as a specially designated company for the purposes of this section and section 1396; a reference in any other enactment to a designated company (within the meaning of that section 256(5)) shall, on and from the commencement of this section, be read as a reference to a specially designated company. (7) In the event that a specially designated company does not provide facilities for the direct or indirect participation by the public in the profits and income of the company within a period, not greater than 6 months, which shall be specified in the authorisation under this section, the company shall, on the expiry of the period so specified, be deemed to have ceased to be a specially designated company; for the purposes of the application of this subsection to a company referred to in subsection (6) the foregoing reference to an authorisation under this subsection shall be read as a reference to an authorisation under section 256 of the Act of 1990 and, accordingly, a company referred to in subsection (6) is subject to the same cessation of its status, as is provided by this subsection for investment companies otherwise, where (a) the period specified in the authorisation under that section 256 expires after the commencement of this section; and (b) the company has not provided facilities for the direct or indirect participation by the public in the profits and income of the company within that period. (8) An investment company which is not a specially designated company shall not raise capital by providing facilities for the direct or indirect participation by the public in the profits and income of the company. (9) If a company contravenes subsection (1) or (8), the company and any officer of it who is in default shall be guilty of a category 2 offence. 1057
13 PT.24 S.1395 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] (10) If a person contravenes subsection (2), the person shall be guilty of a category 2 offence. Powers of Central Bank (1) Notwithstanding any other powers which may be available to the Central Bank under any other enactment, the Central Bank may impose such conditions for the granting of an authorisation to a company under section 1395 as it considers appropriate and prudent for the purposes of the orderly and proper regulation of the business of investment companies. (2) Conditions imposed under subsection (1) may be imposed generally, or by reference to particular classes of company or business (including, but not limited to, whether or not an investment company is a specially designated company), or by reference to any other matter the Central Bank considers appropriate and prudent for the purposes of the orderly and proper regulation of the business of investment companies. (3) The power to impose conditions referred to in subsection (1) includes a power to impose such further conditions from time to time as the Central Bank considers appropriate and prudent for the purposes of the orderly and proper regulation of the business of investment companies. (4) As appropriate (a) conditions imposed by the Central Bank on an investment company may (without prejudice to the generality of subsections (1) to (3)) make provision for; (b) as respects the person or other body referred to in paragraph (iii) or (v), there is otherwise conferred on the Bank power to make provision for; the following: (i) the prudential requirements of the investment policies of the company; (ii) without prejudice to Chapter 1 of Part 23 and regulations thereunder (so far as they are applicable to securities issued by companies of the closed-end type), prospectuses and other information disseminated by the company; (iii) the vesting of the assets or specified assets of the company in a person nominated by the Central Bank with such of the powers or duties of a trustee with regard to the company as are specified by the Bank; (iv) such other supervisory and reporting requirements and conditions relating to its business as the Central Bank considers appropriate and prudent to impose on the company from time to time for the purposes referred to in the foregoing subsections; (v) supervisory and reporting requirements and conditions relating to the business of a management company as the Central Bank considers appropriate or prudent to impose on the management company from time to time. (5) A company shall comply with any conditions relating to its authorisation or business imposed by the Central Bank. 1058
14 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] PT.24 S.1396 (6) A person or other body referred to in subsection (4)(iii) or (v) in relation to whom requirements or conditions are imposed by the Central Bank in accordance with subsection (4) shall comply with such requirements or conditions. (7) If a company fails to comply with a condition referred to in subsection (5), the company and any officer of it who is in default shall be guilty of a category 2 offence. (8) If a person or other body fails to comply with a requirement or condition referred to in subsection (6), the person or body, and (in the case of a body) any officer of it who is in default, shall be guilty of a category 2 offence. Default of investment company or failure in performance of its investments (1) An authorisation by the Central Bank under section 1395 of an investment company shall not constitute a warranty by the Bank as to the creditworthiness or financial standing of that company. (2) The Central Bank shall not be liable by virtue of that authorisation or by reason of its performance of the functions conferred on it by this Part in relation to investment companies for any default of the investment company unless the Bank acted in bad faith in performing such functions. CHAPTER 3 Share capital Power of company to purchase own shares (1) Subject to subsection (2), the purchase by an investment company of its own shares shall be on such terms and in such manner as may be provided by its articles. (2) An investment company shall not purchase its own shares, for the purposes referred to in section 1386(1)(b)(ii), unless they are fully paid, but nothing in this subsection shall prevent a purchase being made in accordance with section 1399(2). (3) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Act shall require an investment company to create any reserve account. Treatment of purchased shares (1) Shares of an investment company which have been purchased by the company shall be cancelled and the amount of the company s issued share capital shall be reduced by the amount of the consideration paid by the company for the purchase of the shares. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), an umbrella fund may, for the account of any of its sub-funds, and in accordance with conditions imposed by the Central Bank pursuant to section 1396, acquire by subscription or transfer for consideration, shares of any class or classes, howsoever described, representing other sub-funds of the same umbrella fund provided that the acquisition is for a purpose otherwise than that provided for in section 1386(1)(b)(ii). 1059
15 PT.24 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] CHAPTER 4 Financial statements Statutory financial statements (1) To the extent that the use of any alternative body of accounting standards does not contravene any provision of Part 6 (as that Part applies to investment companies) (a) a true and fair view of the assets and liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of an investment company may be given by the use by the investment company of those standards in the preparation of its Companies Act entity financial statements, and (b) a true and fair view of the assets and liabilities, financial position and profit or loss of an investment company and its subsidiary undertakings as a whole may be given by the use by the investment company of those standards in the preparation of its Companies Act group financial statements. (2) In this section alternative body of accounting standards means standards that accounts of companies or undertakings must comply with that are laid down by such body or bodies having authority to lay down standards of that kind in (a) United States of America; (b) Canada; (c) Japan; or (d) any other prescribed state or territory; as may be prescribed; relevant financial statements means Companies Act entity financial statements or Companies Act group financial statements. (3) Before making regulations for the purposes of subsection (2), the Minister (a) shall consult with the Central Bank and the Supervisory Authority, and (b) may consult with any other persons whom the Minister considers should be consulted. (4) Regulations made under section 3(3) of the Act of 1990 prescribing, for the purposes of the definition of alternative body of accounting standards in section 260A(4) of the Act of 1990, bodies having authority to lay down standards of the kind referred to in that definition, and which regulations are in force immediately before the commencement of this section, shall continue in force as if they were regulations made under section 12 for the purposes of subsection (2) and may be amended or revoked accordingly. 1060
16 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] PT.24 Requirement for corporate governance statement and modification of certain provisions of Parts 5 and 6 as they apply to investment companies Chapter 3 of Part 23 has effect in relation to, amongst other companies, an investment company that has shares or debentures admitted to trading on a regulated market in an EEA state. CHAPTER 5 Winding up Circumstances in which company may be wound up by the court (1) Section 569(1)(e) shall not apply to an investment company but provision for the winding up of an investment company on the grounds that it is just and equitable to do so is made by this section. (2) This section is in addition to the cases set out in section 569 (so far as not disapplied by subsection (1)) in which an investment company may be wound up by the court. (3) An investment company may be wound up by the court if the court is of opinion that it is just and equitable that the company should be wound up and the following conditions are satisfied (a) the petition for such winding up has been presented by the trustee of the company, that is to say, the person nominated by the Central Bank under section 1396(4)(iii) in respect of the company; (b) that trustee has notified the company of its intention to resign as such trustee and 6 or more months have elapsed after the date of the giving of that notification without a trustee having been appointed to replace it; (c) the court, in considering that petition, has regard to (i) any conditions imposed under section 1396 in relation to the resignation from office of such a trustee and the replacement of it by another trustee; and (ii) whether a winding up would best serve the interests of shareholders in the company; and (d) the petition for such winding up has been served on the company (if any) discharging, in relation to the first-mentioned company, functions of a management company. CHAPTER 6 Restoration Restoration by the court Section 741 shall apply to an investment company as if, in subsection (1)(a), 2 years were substituted for 20 years. 1061
17 PT.24 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] CHAPTER 7 Public offers of securities, prevention of market abuse, etc. Application of Chapters 1, 2 and 4 of Part 23 to investment companies Chapters 1, 2 and 4 of Part 23 (a) so far as they are applicable to companies other than public limited companies that fall within Part 17; and (b) with the exception, in particular, of sections 1358 to 1360; shall apply to an investment company. CHAPTER 8 Umbrella funds and sub-funds Segregated liability of investment company sub-funds (1) Notwithstanding any statutory provision or rule of law to the contrary, but subject to Schedule 17 (a) any liability incurred on behalf of or attributable to any sub-fund of an umbrella fund shall be discharged solely out of the assets of that sub-fund; and (b) no umbrella fund nor any director, receiver, examiner, liquidator, provisional liquidator or other person shall apply, nor be obliged to apply, the assets of any such sub-fund in satisfaction of any liability incurred on behalf of or attributable to any other sub-fund of the same umbrella fund; whether such liability was incurred before, on or after 30 June (2) Schedule 17 provides that subsection (1) shall not apply to an umbrella fund which was authorised and commenced trading (as that latter expression is to be read in accordance with that Schedule) before 30 June 2005 unless the conditions specified in that Schedule are satisfied. Requirements to be complied with by, and other matters respecting, an umbrella fund to which section 1405(1) applies (1) An umbrella fund to which section 1405(1) applies shall (a) ensure that the words An umbrella fund with segregated liability between subfunds are included in all its letterheads and in any agreement entered into by it in writing with a third party; and (b) disclose to a third party that it is a segregated liability umbrella fund before it enters into an oral contract with the third party. (2) If an umbrella fund fails to comply with subsection (1)(a) or (b), the umbrella fund and any officer of it who is in default shall be guilty of a category 3 offence. 1062
18 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] PT.24 S.1406 (3) There shall be implied in every contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction entered into by an umbrella fund to which section 1405(1) applies the following terms, that: (a) the party or parties contracting with the umbrella fund shall not seek, whether in any proceedings or by any other means whatsoever or wheresoever, to have recourse to any assets of any sub-fund of the umbrella fund in the discharge of all or any part of a liability which was not incurred on behalf of that sub-fund; (b) if any party contracting with the umbrella fund shall succeed by any means whatsoever or wheresoever in having recourse to any assets of any sub-fund of the umbrella fund in the discharge of all or any part of a liability which was not incurred on behalf of that sub-fund, that party shall be liable to the umbrella fund to pay a sum equal to the value of the benefit thereby obtained by it; and (c) if any party contracting with the umbrella fund shall succeed in seizing or attaching by any means, or otherwise levying execution against, any assets of a sub-fund of an umbrella fund in respect of a liability which was not incurred on behalf of that sub-fund, that party shall hold those assets or the direct or indirect proceeds of the sale of such assets on trust for the umbrella fund and shall keep those assets or proceeds separate and identifiable as such trust property. (4) All sums recovered by an umbrella fund as a result of any such trust as is described in subsection (3)(c) shall be credited against any concurrent liability pursuant to the implied term set out in subsection (3)(b). (5) Any asset or sum recovered by an umbrella fund pursuant to the implied term set out in paragraph (b) or (c) of subsection (3) or by any other means whatsoever or wheresoever in the events referred to in those paragraphs shall, after the deduction or payment of any costs of recovery, be applied so as to compensate the sub-fund affected. (6) In the event that assets attributable to a sub-fund to which section 1405(1) applies are taken in execution of a liability not attributable to that sub-fund, and in so far as such assets or compensation in respect thereof cannot otherwise be restored to that subfund affected, the directors of the umbrella fund, with the consent of the custodian, shall certify or cause to be certified, the value of the assets lost to the sub-fund affected and transfer or pay from the assets of the sub-fund or sub-funds to which the liability was attributable, in priority to all other claims against such sub-fund or subfunds, assets or sums sufficient to restore to the sub-fund affected, the value of the assets or sums lost to it. Further matters respecting an umbrella fund to which section 1405(1) applies (1) Without prejudice to the other provisions of sections 1405 and 1406, Schedule 17 and this section, a sub-fund of an umbrella fund is not a legal person separate from that umbrella fund, but an umbrella fund may sue and be sued in respect of a particular sub-fund and may exercise the same rights of set-off, if any, as between its sub-funds as apply at law in respect of companies and the property of a sub-fund is subject to orders of the court as it would have been if the sub-fund were a separate legal person. 1063
19 PT.24 S.1407 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] (2) Nothing in section 1405 or 1406, Schedule 17 or this section shall prevent the application of any enactment or rule of law which would require the application of the assets of any sub-fund in discharge of some or all of the liabilities of any other subfund on the grounds of fraud or misrepresentation and, in particular, by reason of the application of section 443, 557, 604 or 608. (3) A sub-fund may be wound up in accordance with section 569(1)(d) or 586(2) as if the sub-fund were a separate company but, in any such case, the appointment of the liquidator or any provisional liquidator and the powers, rights, duties and responsibilities of the liquidator or any provisional liquidator shall be confined to the sub-fund or sub-funds which is or are being wound up. (4) For the purposes of subsection (3), all references made in section 569(1)(d) or 586(2), and in all relevant provisions of this Act relating to the winding up of a company pursuant to section 569(1)(d) or 586(2), to one of the following words shall be read as follows: (a) company shall be read as referring to the sub-fund or sub-funds which is or are being wound up; (b) a member or members shall be read as referring to the holders of the shares in that sub-fund or sub-funds; and (c) creditors shall be read as referring to the creditors of that sub-fund or subfunds. CHAPTER 9 Migration of funds Definitions (Chapter 9) (1) In this Chapter migrating company means a body corporate which is established and registered under the laws of a relevant jurisdiction and which is a collective investment undertaking; registration documents has the meaning given to it by section 1409; relevant jurisdiction, other than in sections 1413 and 1414, means the place, outside the State, prescribed under subsection (2) where the migrating company is established and registered at the time of its application under section (2) The Minister may make regulations prescribing places, outside the State, for the purposes of the definition of relevant jurisdiction in subsection (1), where he or she is satisfied that the law of the place concerned makes provision for migrating companies to continue under the laws of the State or for companies to continue under the laws of that place in a substantially similar manner to continuations under section
20 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] PT.24 Registration documents meaning (1) In this Chapter registration documents, in relation to a migrating company, means the following documents: (a) a copy, certified and authenticated in the prescribed manner, of the certificate of registration or equivalent certificate or document issued with respect to the migrating company under the laws of the relevant jurisdiction; (b) a copy, certified and authenticated in the prescribed manner, of the memorandum and articles of the migrating company or equivalent constitutive document of the migrating company; (c) a list setting out particulars in relation to the directors and secretary of the migrating company in accordance with the provisions of section 149; (d) a statutory declaration, in the prescribed form, of a director of the migrating company made not more than 28 days before the date on which the application is made to the Registrar to the effect that (i) the migrating company is, as of the date of the declaration, established and registered in the relevant jurisdiction, no petition or other similar proceeding to wind up or liquidate the migrating company has been notified to it and remains outstanding in any place, and no order has been notified to the migrating company or resolution adopted to wind up or liquidate the migrating company in any place; (ii) the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, examiner or other similar person has not been notified to the migrating company and, at the date of the declaration, no such person is acting in that capacity in any place with respect to the migrating company or its property or any part thereof; (iii) the migrating company is not, at the date of the declaration, operating or carrying on business under any scheme, order, compromise or other similar arrangement entered into or made by the migrating company with creditors in any place; (iv) at the date of the declaration the migrating company has served notice of the proposed registration on the creditors of the migrating company; (v) any consent or approval to the proposed registration in the State required by any contract entered into or undertaking given by the migrating company has been obtained or waived, as the case may be; and (vi) the registration is permitted by and has been approved in accordance with the memorandum and articles of association or equivalent constitutive document of the migrating company; (e) a declaration of solvency prepared in accordance with section 1415; (f) a schedule of the charges or security interests created or granted by the migrating company that would, if such charges or security interests had been created or granted by a company incorporated under this Act, have been registrable under Chapter 2 of Part 7 and such particulars of those security interests and charges as 1065
21 PT.24 S.1409 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] are specified in relation to charges by section 414; (g) notification of the proposed name of the migrating company if different from its existing name; and (h) a copy of the memorandum and articles of the migrating company which the migrating company has resolved to adopt, which shall be in the Irish language or the English language, which shall take effect on registration under section 1410 and which the migrating company undertakes not to amend before registration without the prior authorisation of the Registrar. (2) If the original of any of the documents referred to in subsection (1) is not written in the Irish or the English language, then registration documents in this Chapter, in so far as that expression relates to such a document, means a translation of the document into the Irish or the English language certified as being a correct translation of it by a person who is competent to so certify. Continuation of foreign investment company (1) A migrating company may apply to the Registrar to be registered as an investment company in the State by way of continuation. (2) Where an application is made under subsection (1), the Registrar shall not register the migrating company as an investment company in the State unless he or she is satisfied that all of the requirements of this Act in respect of the registration and of matters precedent and incidental thereto have been complied with and, in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, he or she is satisfied that (a) the migrating company has delivered to the Registrar an application for the purpose, in the prescribed form and signed by a director of the migrating company, together with the registration documents; (b) the name or, if relevant, the proposed new name of the migrating company has not been determined to be undesirable pursuant to section 26; (c) the migrating company has delivered to the Registrar notice of the address of its proposed registered office in the State; (d) the migrating company has applied to the Central Bank to be authorised to carry on business as an investment company under section 1395 and the Central Bank has notified the migrating company and the Registrar that it proposes to authorise the migrating company to so carry on business. (3) An application under this section shall be accompanied by a statutory declaration in the prescribed form made by a solicitor engaged for this purpose by the migrating company, or by a director of the migrating company, and stating that the requirements mentioned in subsection (2) have been complied with. The Registrar may accept such a declaration as sufficient evidence of compliance. (4) The Registrar shall, as soon as is practicable after receipt of the application for registration, publish notice of it in the CRO Gazette. (5) Where the Registrar receives a notification under subsection (2)(d), the Registrar 1066
22 [2014.] Companies Act [No. 38.] PT.24 S.1410 (a) may issue a certificate of registration of the migrating company by way of continuation of the migrating company as an investment company under the laws of the State; and (b) if he or she issues such a certificate, shall enter in the register maintained for the purpose of section 414, in relation to charges and security interests of the migrating company specified in paragraph (f) of the definition of registration documents in section 1409(1), the particulars specified by section 414 which have been supplied by the migrating company. (6) The migrating company shall, as soon as may be after being registered under subsection (5), apply to be de-registered in the relevant jurisdiction. (7) The Registrar shall enter in the register of companies the date of registration of the migrating company and shall forthwith publish notice in the CRO Gazette of the following matters: (a) the date of the registration of the migrating company under this section; (b) the relevant jurisdiction; and (c) the previous name of the migrating company if different from the name under which it is being registered. (8) From the date of registration, the migrating company shall be deemed to be an investment company formed and registered under this Part and shall continue for all purposes under this Act, and the provisions of this Part shall apply to the migrating company, but this section does not operate (a) to create a new legal entity; (b) to prejudice or affect the identity or continuity of the migrating company as previously established and registered under the laws of the relevant jurisdiction for the period that the migrating company was established and registered in the relevant jurisdiction; (c) to affect any contract made, resolution passed or any other act or thing done in relation to the migrating company during the period that the migrating company was so established and registered; (d) to affect the rights, authorities, functions and liabilities or obligations of the migrating company or any other person; or (e) to render defective any legal proceedings by or against the migrating company. (9) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (8) (a) the failure of a migrating company to send to the Registrar the particulars of a charge or security interest created before the date of registration shall not prejudice any rights which any person in whose favour the charge was made or security interest created may have thereunder; and (b) any legal proceedings that could have been continued or commenced by or against the migrating company before its registration under this section may, 1067
23 PT.24 S.1410 [No. 38.] Companies Act [2014.] notwithstanding the registration, be continued or commenced by or against the migrating company after registration. Supplemental provisions in relation to section (1) The migrating company shall (a) notify the Registrar in the prescribed form; and (b) notify the Central Bank; within 3 days after the date of its de-registration in the relevant jurisdiction, of that de-registration. (2) On registration of the migrating company under section 1410(5), the Central Bank shall forthwith authorise the migrating company to carry on business under this Part. (3) If there is any material change in any of the information contained in the statutory declaration mentioned in paragraph (d) of the definition of registration documents in section 1409(1) after the date of the declaration and before the date of the registration under section 1410, the director who made that statutory declaration, and any other director who becomes aware of that material change shall forthwith deliver a new statutory declaration to the Registrar relating to the change. (4) If the migrating company fails to comply with any provision of section 1410 or this section, the Registrar may send to the company by post a registered letter stating that, unless the migrating company rectifies the failure within 30 days after the date of the letter and confirms that it has rectified the failure, a notice may be published in the CRO Gazette with a view to striking the migrating company off the register. (5) If the failure mentioned in subsection (4) is not rectified within 30 days after the date of the sending of the letter referred to in that subsection, the Registrar may publish in the CRO Gazette a notice stating that, at the expiration of 1 month after the date of that notice, the migrating company mentioned therein will, unless the matter is resolved, be struck off the register, and the migrating company will be dissolved. (6) At the expiration of the time mentioned in the notice, the Registrar may, unless cause to the contrary is previously shown by the migrating company, strike the company off the register, and shall publish notice thereof in the CRO Gazette, and on that publication, the migrating company shall be dissolved. (7) For the purposes of this section, section 736 shall apply as if the reference in it to Chapter 1 of Part 12 included a reference to this section and, accordingly, the other provisions of Chapter 2 of that Part shall apply with any necessary modifications. Definitions for the purposes of de-registration provisions contained in sections 1413 and (1) In sections 1413 and 1414 applicant means an investment company that applies under section 1413 to be deregistered under section 1414; 1068
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