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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-relevant-authorised-persons-order-2015/article-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2015/9780111138168",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Relevant Authorised Persons) Order 2015",
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  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Relevant Authorised Persons) Order 2015 and comes into force on 9th November 2015.\n(2) In this Order —\n“the Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; and\n“branch” means a place of business that forms a legally dependent part of a non-UK institution and conducts directly all or some of the operations inherent in its business.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "“non-UK institution” is defined section 71A(6)(b) of the Act."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2015/9780111138168/article/1",
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  "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."
}