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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2006/schedule-5/paragraph-21",
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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": "schedule/5/paragraph/21",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Amendment of section 424A",
  "text": "In section 424A (investment firm), for subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) References in this Act to an “investment firm” include references to a person who would be an investment firm (within the meaning of Article 4.1.1 of the markets in financial instruments directive) if—\n(a) in the case of a body corporate, his registered office or, if he has no registered office, his head office, and\n(b) in the case of a person other than a body corporate, his head office,\nwere in an EEA State.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 424A was inserted by S.I. 2006/2975."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2006/0110755529/schedule/5/paragraph/21",
    "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."
}