Regulation 9 Amendment of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006

In section 539 (minor definitions), in the definition of “MiFID investment firm”^f1—

(a)

for “Article 4.1.1 of Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments,” substitute “Article 2(1A) of Regulation (EU) No. 600/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on markets in financial instruments and amending Regulation (EU) No. 648/2012^f2”;

(b)

in paragraph (a), for “to which that Directive does not apply by virtue of Article 2 of that Directive” substitute “which is exempted from the definition of “investment firm” by Schedule 3 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/544)^f3”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: The definition of “MiFID investment firm” was inserted by regulation 3(7)(b) of S.I. 2007/2932, and amended by paragraphs 9(5)(a), (b) and (c) of Schedule 4 to S.I. 2017/701 and regulation 3 of S.I. 2018/786.
f2: OJ No. L 173 12.06.2014, p. 84.
f3: S.I. 2001/544.