Financial Advisers (Custodians of FMCA Financial Products) Amendment Regulations 2015
Financial Advisers (Custodians of FMCA Financial Products) Amendment Regulations 2015: revoked, on 15 March 2021, pursuant to section 97(2)(a) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
Reprint as at 15 March 2021
Financial Advisers (Custodians of FMCA Financial Products) Amendment Regulations 2015
(LI 2015/277)
Financial Advisers (Custodians of FMCA Financial Products) Amendment Regulations 2015: revoked, on 15 March 2021, pursuant to section 97(2)(a) of the Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8).
Jerry Mateparae, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 16th day of November 2015
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
Note
Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.
Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.
These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment.
Pursuant to section 154 of the Financial Advisers Act 2008, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council and on the recommendation of the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs made after consulting the Financial Markets Authority, makes the following regulations.
Contents
Regulations
1 Title
These regulations are the Financial Advisers (Custodians of FMCA Financial Products) Amendment Regulations 2015.
2 Commencement
These regulations come into force on 17 December 2015.
3 Principal regulations
These regulations amend the Financial Advisers (Custodians of FMCA Financial Products) Regulations 2014 (the principal regulations).
4 Regulation 3 amended (Interpretation)
In regulation 3, definition of FMCA custodial service, paragraph (b), replace “an FMCA financial product”
with “client money or client property”
.
5 Regulation 9 amended (Custodian must obtain assurance engagement)
(1)
Replace regulation 9(1) with:
(1)
A custodian must obtain, within 4 months after the relevant date, an assurance engagement with a qualified auditor done in accordance with applicable auditing and assurance standards.
(2)
After regulation 9(2), insert:
(3)
In this regulation and regulation 10, relevant date, in relation to a custodian, means—
(a)
the custodian’s balance date; or
(b)
a date in each calendar year that is—
(i)
determined by the custodian; and
(ii)
notified to the FMA in writing within 10 working days after the determination is made.
(4)
The following apply for the purposes of the date under subclause (3)(b):
(a)
in the case of a date that is adopted as the first relevant date, the date must be within the first 12 months of this regulation applying to the custodian in respect of a client; and
(b)
the custodian may change the date if—
(i)
the period between any 2 dates does not exceed 15 months; and
(ii)
the change is notified to the FMA in writing within 10 working days after the custodian decides to make the change; and
(c)
if the custodian adopts a date in accordance with paragraph (a) or changes the date in accordance with paragraph (b), it need not have a date in a particular calendar year.
6 Regulation 10 amended (Requirements of assurance engagement and report)
(1)
In regulation 10(1)(a), replace “accounting period”
with “most recently completed relevant period”
.
(2)
In regulation 10(1)(b), replace “the accounting period”
with “that relevant period”
.
(3)
After regulation 10(2), insert:
(3)
In this regulation, relevant period, in relation to a custodian, means a 12-month period ending on the relevant date of the custodian, and if, as a result of the date on which it became a custodian or a change of the relevant date of the custodian, the period ending on that date is longer or shorter than 12 months, that longer or shorter period is a relevant period.
7 Regulation 11 amended (Application of sections 77P to 77T of Act and these regulations to wholesale clients)
After regulation 11(2)(c), insert:
(d)
entities that are under the control of a person referred to in any of paragraphs (a) to (c) (where control has the same meaning as in clause 48 of Schedule 1 of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013).
Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations, which come into force on 17 December 2015, amend the Financial Advisers (Custodians of FMCA Financial Products) Regulations 2014 (the principal regulations). Those regulations impose obligations on persons who carry on a business of providing or offering to provide FMCA custodial services to a client.
Regulation 4 amends regulation 3 of the principal regulations with the effect that the definition of FMCA custodial service does not include a service to the extent that client money or client property is held solely for completing a transaction or securing an obligation, or both.
Regulations 5 and 6 amend regulations 9 and 10 of the principal regulations to give a custodian more flexibility with respect to the time at which it must obtain an assurance engagement with a qualified auditor.
Regulation 7 amends regulation 11 of the principal regulations, which provides for broker obligations in sections 77P to 77T of the Financial Advisers Act 2008 to apply to FMCA custodial services provided to wholesale clients (as defined in that Act) unless all of the clients fall within certain categories of wholesale investor under the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013. These regulations extend the provision relating to wholesale investors to include entities controlled by wholesale investors.
Date of notification in Gazette: 19 November 2015.
Reprints notes
1 General
This is a reprint of the Financial Advisers (Custodians of FMCA Financial Products) Amendment Regulations 2015 that incorporates all the amendments to those regulations as at the date of the last amendment to them.
2 Legal status
Reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by any amendments to that enactment. Section 18 of the Legislation Act 2012 provides that this reprint, published in electronic form, has the status of an official version under section 17 of that Act. A printed version of the reprint produced directly from this official electronic version also has official status.
3 Editorial and format changes
Editorial and format changes to reprints are made using the powers under sections 24 to 26 of the Legislation Act 2012. See also http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/.
4 Amendments incorporated in this reprint
Financial Services Legislation Amendment Act 2019 (2019 No 8): section 97(2)(a)