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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2006/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2006/0110755529",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n“authorised person” has the meaning given in section 31(2) of the Act;\n“the Authority” means the Financial Services Authority;\n“investment services directive” means Council Directive 93/22/EEC of 10 May 1993 on investment services in the securities field;\n“markets in financial instruments directive” means Directive 2004/39/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 April 2004 on markets in financial instruments;\n“Part IV permission” has the meaning given in section 40(4) of the Act;\n“Schedule 3” means Schedule 3 to the Act;",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2000 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No L 141, 11.6.1993, p. 27."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No L 145, 30.4.2004, p.1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110755529/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:20:31.857832+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."
}