{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-cryptoassets-regulations-2025/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-cryptoassets-regulations-2025/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348277586",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-cryptoassets-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation: general",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n“the Financial Promotion Order” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005;\n“the full commencement day” means the date specified by regulation 1(2) (citation, commencement and extent);\n“qualifying cryptoasset” has the meaning given by article 88F of the Regulated Activities Order (qualifying cryptoassets);\n“qualifying cryptoasset trading platform” has the meaning given by article 3 of the Regulated Activities Order;\n“qualifying stablecoin” has the meaning given by article 88G of the Regulated Activities Order (qualifying stablecoin);\n“the Regulated Activities Order” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Article 88F is inserted by regulation 40(11) of this instrument."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “qualifying cryptoasset trading platform” is inserted into article 3 by regulation 40(2) of this instrument."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Article 88G is inserted by regulation 40(11) of this instrument."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/544."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348277586/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:18.364924+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."
}