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c.8                 Financial Services Act 2008                151

                                 “body corporate” includes a limited liability company constituted
                                      under the Limited Liability Companies Act 1996;            [c.19]

                                 “building society” has the meaning given in section 7 of the
                                      Industrial and Building Societies Act 1892;                [VI p.405]

                                 “chief executive” means an individual who is employed
                                      by the licenceholder  and who either alone or jointly
                                      with others is or will be responsible under the
                                      immediate authority of the directors for the conduct
                                      of its business;

                                 “the Commission” has the meaning given by section 1(1);


                                 “conditions” includes restrictions;

                                 “controller” means —

                                  (a) a managing director of a body corporate of which the
                                      licenceholder  is a subsidiary;

                                  (b) a chief executive of a body corporate of which the
                                      licenceholder is a subsidiary;

                                  (c) an individual in accordance with whose directions or
                                      instructions one or more of the directors of a body corporate
                                      of which the licenceholder is a subsidiary are accustomed
                                      to act unless the director or directors are accustomed so to
                                      act by reason only that they do so on advice given by that
                                      individual in a professional capacity;

                                  (d) an individual who either alone or with any associate or
                                      associates is entitled to exercise or control the exercise
                                      of 15% or more of the voting power at any general
                                      meeting of the licenceholder or of another body
                                      corporate of which it is a subsidiary;

                                  “crime” means any conduct which —

                                  (a) constitutes one or more criminal offences (whether
                                      under the law of the Island or of any country or territory
                                      outside the Island); or


                                  (b) is, or corresponds to, any conduct which, if it all took
                                      place in the Island, would constitute one or more
                                      criminal offences;

                                 “director” includes —

                                  (a) any person occupying the position of director by
                                      whatever name called;
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