[420 Meaning of “securities” etc]

[Interpretation of Chapters 1 to 5]

[420  Meaning of “securities” etc]

[(1)     Subject to subsections (5) and (6), for the purposes of this Chapter and Chapters 2 to 5 the following are “securities”—

(a)     shares in any body corporate (wherever incorporated) or in any unincorporated body constituted under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom,

[(aa)     rights under contracts of insurance other than excluded contracts of insurance,]

(b)     debentures, debenture stock, loan stock, bonds, certificates of deposit and other instruments creating or acknowledging indebtedness [(other than contracts of insurance)],

(c)     warrants and other instruments entitling their holders to subscribe for securities (whether or not in existence or identifiable),

(d)     certificates and other instruments conferring rights in respect of securities held by persons other than the persons on whom the rights are conferred and the transfer of which may be effected without the consent of those persons,

(e)     units in a collective investment scheme,

(f)     [options and] futures, . . .

(g)     rights under contracts for differences or contracts similar to contracts for differences [(other than contracts of insurance)][, [and

(h)     arrangements

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