Investment Business (Amendment No. 2) (Jersey) Law 2000

INVESTMENT BUSINESS (AMENDMENT No. 2) (JERSEY) LAW 2000

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A LAW     to amend the Investment Business (Jersey) Law 1998, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the

 

14th day of JUNE 2000

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(Registered on the 30th day of June 2000)

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STATES OF JERSEY

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The 22nd day of February 2000

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                THE STATES, subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law -

 

ARTICLE 1

 

                For paragraph (4) of Article 38 of the Investment Business (Jersey) Law 1998,[1] as amended,[2] there shall be substituted the following paragraphs -

 

“(4)   Where an offence under this Law committed by a limited liability partnership or company is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of -

 

(a)     a person who is a partner of the partnership, or director, manager, secretary or other similar officer of the company; or

 

(b)     any person purporting to act in any such capacity,

 

the person shall also be guilty of the offence and liable in the same manner as the partnership or company to the penalty provided for that offence.

 

(4A)  Where the affairs of a company are managed by its members, paragraph (4) shall apply in relation to acts and defaults of a member in connection with his functions of management as if he were a director of the company.

 

                          (5)     Any person who aids, abets, counsels or procures the commission of an offence under this Law shall also be guilty of the offence and liable in the same manner as a principal offender to the penalty provided for that offence.

 

                          (5A)  Nothing in paragraph (5) affects the operation of paragraph (4) or (4A).”

 

ARTICLE 2

 

                (1)     This Law may be cited as the Investment Business (Amendment No. 2) (Jersey) Law 2000.

 

                (2)     This Law shall come into force on such day as the States may by Act appoint and different days may be appointed for different provisions or different purposes of this Law.

 

                                                                                      C.M. NEWCOMBE

 

Deputy Greffier of the States.

 

 



[1] Volume 1998, page 572.

[2] Volume 1999, page 420.


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