Irish Collective Asset-Management Vehicles Act 2015

72.

Sections 70 and 71: supplementary

72. (1) Where in proceedings for the recovery of any payment as having, by virtue of any provision of section 70 or 71, been received by any person in trust, it is shown that—

(a) the payment was made in pursuance of any arrangement entered into as part of the agreement for the transfer in question, or within one year before or 2 years after that agreement or the offer leading to it, and

(b) the ICAV or any person to whom the transfer was made was privy to that arrangement,

the payment shall be deemed, except in so far as the contrary is shown, to be one to which the provisions apply.

(2) If in connection with any such transfer as is mentioned in section 70 or 71

(a) the price to be paid to a director of the ICAV for any shares in the ICAV held by him or her is in excess of the price which could at the time have been obtained by other holders of the like shares, or

(b) any valuable consideration is given to any such director,

the excess or the money value of the consideration, as the case may be, shall, for the purposes of that section, be deemed to have been a payment made to him or her by way of compensation for loss of office or as consideration for or in connection with retirement from office.

(3) References in sections 70 and 71 to payments to any director of an ICAV by way of compensation for loss of office, or as consideration for or in connection with retirement from office, include payments to him or her by way of compensation for—

(a) loss of office as director of the ICAV, or

(b) the loss, while director of the ICAV, or on or in connection with his or her ceasing to be a director of the ICAV, of any other office in connection with the management of the ICAV’s affairs or of any office as director or otherwise in connection with the management of the affairs of any subsidiary,

but do not include any bona fide payment by way of damages for breach of contract or by way of pension in respect of past services, and for the purposes of this subsection “pension” includes any superannuation allowance, superannuation gratuity or similar payment.

(4) Nothing in section 70 or 71 shall be taken to prejudice—

(a) the operation of any rule of law requiring disclosure to be made with respect to any such payments as are mentioned in that section or with respect to any other like payments made or to be made to the directors of an ICAV, or

(b) the operation of any rule of law in relation to the accountability (if any) of any director for any such payment received by him.

(5) References in sections 70 and 71 and this section to a director include references to a former director.