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(1) "Compliance Adviser" means any corporation or authorised financial institution licensed or registered under the Securities and Futures Ordinance for Type 6 regulated activity and permitted under its licence or certificate of registration to undertake work as a Sponsor and, as applicable, which is appointed under rule 6A.19 or rule 6A.20 to undertake work as a Compliance Adviser;

(2) "expert" includes every accountant, engineer, or appraiser, or any person whose profession gives authority to a statement made by him;

(3) "expert section" means, in relation to the listing document, any part of the listing document purporting to be made on the authority of an expert or purporting to be a copy of or extract from a report, opinion, statement or valuation of an expert where the expert gives consent for the inclusion in the listing document of the copy or extract and the listing document includes a statement that he has given and has not withdrawn such consent;

Note: Retaining an expert to advise or assist a new applicant or Sponsor on any non-expert section of the listing document does of itself not make such section an expert section.

(4) "Fixed Period" means the period for which a listed issuer must retain a Compliance Adviser under rule 6A.19;

(5) "initial application for listing", "initial listing" and "initial public offering" include deemed new listings of equity securities under rule 19.54;

(6) "listed issuer" for the purposes of this Chapter, has the same meaning as in rule 1.01 but excludes an issuer of debt securities only;

(7) "new applicant" for the purposes of this Chapter, has the same meaning as in rule 1.01, modified for the purpose of this Chapter 6A to:

(8) "non-expert sections" means, in relation to the listing document, any part of the listing document that is not part of any expert section;

(9) "Sponsor group" means:

(10) "ultimate holding company" means a holding company that itself does not have a holding company.