The Stock Transfer (Gilt-edged Securities) (Exempt Transfer) Regulations 1988

Made: 12th February 1988

Laid before Parliament: 26th February 1988

Coming into force: 18th March 1988

Now, therefore, the Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1(1) and (4) of the Stock Transfer Act 1982, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:—

Citation and Commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Stock Transfer (Gilt-edged Securities) (Exempt Transfer) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 18th March 1988.

Interpretation

2

In these Regulations:—

• “the Bank” means the Bank of England;

• “the CGO” means the Central Gilts Office of the Bank;

• “the CGO Service” means the computer-based system established by the Bank and The Stock Exchange to facilitate the transfer of gilt-edged securities; and “CGO Service member” means a person who is entitled under a contract with the Bank to use the CGO Service.

Exempt Transfers

3

The securities specified in the Schedule hereto may be transferred by a CGO Service member through the medium of the CGO Service.

SCHEDULE — SECURITIES

Securities specified for the purposes of regulation 3 of these Regulations are those on registers kept by the Bank which have been issued, or which may from time to time be issued, by the following:

• The African Development Bank

• The Asian Development Bank

• Caisse Centrale de Cooperation Economique Credit Foncier de France

• Electricite de France (E.D.F.), Service National Hydro-Quebec

• The Government of the Republic of Ireland

• The Government of Spain

• The Government of the Kingdom of Sweden

• The Government of the Province of Nova Scotia

• The Government of the Province of Quebec

• The Government of the Portuguese Republic

Signed

Mark Lennox-Boyd — Tony Durant — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 12th February 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations specify further gilt-edged securities which may be transferred by CGO Service members through the CGO Service in addition to those specified in the Stock Transfer (Gilt-edged Securities) (Exempt Transfer) Regulations 1985 (S.I. 1985/1145) and the Stock Transfer (Gilt-edged Securities) (Exempt Transfer) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1294). Such transfers will be effective under section 1(2) of the Stock Transfer Act 1982 without the need for an instrument in writing.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1982 c. 41; Schedule 1 was extended by S.I. 1988/231.