Value Added Tax Citation and commencement 1 1 This Order may be cited as the Value Added Tax (Finance) (No. 2) Order 2008. 2 This Order shall come into force as follows— a article 2 on 30th September 2008; and b the remainder on 1st October 2008. Revocation of Order 2 The Value Added Tax (Finance) Order 2008 is revoked. Variation to Group 5 of Schedule 9 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 3 1 Group 5 of Schedule 9 to the Value Added Tax Act 1994 (exemptions: finance) is varied as follows. 2 For item 9 substitute— 9 The management of— a an authorised open-ended investment company; or b an authorised unit trust scheme; or c a Gibraltar collective investment scheme that is not an umbrella scheme; or d a sub-fund of any other Gibraltar collective investment scheme; or e an individually recognised overseas scheme that is not an umbrella scheme; or f a sub-fund of any other individually recognised overseas scheme; or g a recognised collective investment scheme authorised in a designated country or territory that is not an umbrella scheme; or h a sub-fund of any other recognised collective investment scheme authorised in a designated country or territory; or i a recognised collective investment scheme constituted in another EEA state that is not an umbrella scheme; or j a sub-fund of any other recognised collective investment scheme constituted in another EEA state. . 3 For item 10 substitute— 10 The management of a closed-ended collective investment undertaking. . 4 For Note (6) substitute— 6 For the purposes of this Group— “authorised open-ended investment company” and “authorised unit trust scheme” have the meaning given in section 237(3) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ; “closed-ended collective investment undertaking” means an undertaking in relation to which the following conditions are satisfied— its sole object is the investment of capital, raised from the public, wholly or mainly in securities; and it manages its assets on the principle of spreading investment risk; and all of its ordinary shares (of each class if there is more than one) or equivalent units are included in the official list maintained by the Financial Services Authority pursuant to section 74(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; and all of its ordinary shares (of each class if there is more than one) or equivalent units are admitted to trading on a regulated market situated or operating in the United Kingdom; “collective investment scheme” has the meaning given in section 235 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; “Gibraltar collective investment scheme” means— a collective investment scheme to which section 264 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 applies pursuant to an order made under section 409(1)(d) of that Act; or a collective investment scheme to which the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 applies pursuant to an order made under section 409(1)(f) of that Act; “individually recognised overseas scheme” means a collective investment scheme declared by the Financial Services Authority to be a recognised scheme pursuant to section 272 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; “recognised collective investment scheme authorised in a designated country or territory” means a collective investment scheme recognised pursuant to section 270 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; “recognised collective investment scheme constituted in another EEA state” means a collective investment scheme which is recognised pursuant to section 264 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; “regulated market” has the meaning given in section 103(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ; “sub-fund” means a separate part of the property of an umbrella scheme that is pooled separately; “umbrella scheme” means a collective investment scheme under which the contributions of the participants in the scheme and the profits or income out of which payments are to be made to them are pooled separately in relation to separate parts of the scheme property. . 5 After Note (6) insert— 6A A collective investment scheme, or sub-fund, that is not for the time being marketed in the United Kingdom is to be treated as not falling within item 9(c) to (j) if— a it has never been marketed in the United Kingdom, or b less than 5% of its shares or units are held by, or on behalf of, investors who are in the United Kingdom. . 6 Omit Notes (8) and (10). Dave Watts Alan Campbell Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 29th September 2008