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                                  (c) such persons as a licenceholder or an applicant to be a
                                      licenceholder  arranges to be officers of a body corporate
                                      that is itself a director of another body corporate;

                                  (d) such persons as a licenceholder or an applicant to be a
                                      licenceholder arranges to be the trustees of a trust;

                                 “licence” means a licence issued under section 7;

                                 “licenceholder” has the meaning given by section 7(7),

                                 “partnership” has the same meaning as in the Partnership
                                      Act 1909 and includes similar relationships formed [VIII p.327]
                                      outside the Island;

                                 “permitted person” has the meaning given by section 35(1);

                                 “regulated activity” has the meaning given by section 3(1);

                                 “regulatory authority” means any authority whether a
                                      governmental or private body and whether established
                                      in the Island or elsewhere —

                                  (a) which has functions similar to those of the Commission
                                      under this Act or any other enactment;

                                  (b) which regulates or supervises the practice of any profession;

                                  (c) which regulates or supervises the carrying on of any
                                      business or activity in, or connected with, the financial
                                      services industry;


                                  (d) which regulates or supervises any activity similar to a
                                      regulated activity or any market on which a person may
                                      carry on such an activity; or

                                  (e) which sets international standards for any financial
                                      services business (for example, the Basle Committee
                                      on Banking, the Financial Action Task Force, etc.);

                                 “regulatory objectives” has the meaning given in section 2(2);

                                 “Rule Book” has the meaning given by section 18;

                                 “subsidiary” means a body corporate (whether or not
                                      incorporate under the Companies Acts 1931 to 2004)
                                      that is a subsidiary of another body corporate (whether
                                      or not incorporated under those Acts) and in determining
                                      whether one body corporate is a subsidiary of another
                                      the provisions of section 1 of the Companies Act 1974 [c.30]
                                      shall apply with the necessary modifications, and
                                      “holding company” shall be construed accordingly.
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