{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-1974/section-166",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-1974/section-166.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1974/39",
  "legislation_title": "Consumer Credit Act 1974",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumer-credit-act-1974",
  "path": "section/166",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "166",
  "heading": "Notification of convictions and judgments to FCA.",
  "text": "Where a person is convicted of an offence or has a judgment given against him by or before any court in the United Kingdom and it appears to the court—\n(a) having regard to the functions of the FCA under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 or this Act, that the conviction or judgment should be brought to the FCA's attention, and\n(b) that it may not be brought to its attention unless arrangements for that purpose are made by the court,\nthe court may make such arrangements notwithstanding that the proceedings have been finally disposed of.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in s. 166 substituted (26.7.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2014 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consumer Credit) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1882), arts. 1(1), 7(14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 166(a) substituted (26.7.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2014 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consumer Credit) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1882), arts. 1(1), 7(15)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 166(a) substituted (26.7.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2014 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consumer Credit) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1882), arts. 1(1), 7(15)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 166(b) substituted (1.4.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 6(34); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/39/section/166",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:43:44.026464+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}