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Exclusions

C 15/2021 Effective from 6/6/2021

This Regulation shall not apply to the following:

  1. Payment Transactions involving Stored Value Facilities;
     
  2. Transactions involving Commodity or Security Tokens;
     
  3. Transactions involving Virtual Asset Tokens;
     
  4. Payment Transactions involving Remittances;
     
  5. Currency exchange operations where the funds are not held on a Payment Account;
     
  6. Any service other than Payment Initiation and Payment Account Information Service, including (but not limited to) any of the following:
     
    1. 6.1. services, provided by any technical service provider that supports the provision of any payment service, but does not at any time enter into possession of any money under that payment service;
       
    2. 6.2. the service of processing or storing data;
       
    3. 6.3. any information technology security, trust or privacy protection service;
       
    4. 6.4. any data or entity authentication service;
       
    5. 6.5. any information technology service;
       
    6. 6.6. the service of providing a communication network; and
       
    7. 6.7. the service of providing and maintaining any terminal or device used for any payment service.
       
  7. Payment Transactions carried out within a payment system or securities settlement system between Payment Service Providers and settlement agents, central counterparties, clearing houses, central banks or other participants in such system including central securities depositories;
     
  8. Payment Transactions and related services between a parent undertaking and its subsidiary or between subsidiaries of the same parent undertaking, without any intermediary intervention by a Payment Service Provider other than an undertaking belonging to the same group; and
     
  9. Any other relevant activity that may be designated by the Central Bank.