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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-markets-and-insolvency-regulations-1991/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1991/880",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Markets and Insolvency Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-markets-and-insolvency-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation: general",
  "text": "(1) In these Regulations “the Act” means the Companies Act 1989.\n(1A) In these Regulations “the Recognition Requirements Regulations” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Recognition Requirements for Investment Exchanges , Clearing Houses and Central Securities Depositories) Regulations 2001.\n(2) A reference in any of these Regulations to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.\n(3) A reference in any of these Regulations to a numbered paragraph shall, unless the reference is to a paragraph of a specified regulation, be construed as a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in the regulation in which the reference is made.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(1A) inserted (15.6.2009) by The Financial Markets and Insolvency Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/853), regs. 1(1), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2(1A) substituted (28.11.2017) by The Central Securities Depositories Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1064), reg. 1, Sch. para. 20(2) (with regs. 7(4), 9(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 25.4.1991, see reg. 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."
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