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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-act-1986-repealed/section-205",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-act-1986-repealed/section-205.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1986/60",
  "legislation_title": "Financial Services Act 1986 (repealed)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-act-1986-repealed",
  "path": "section/205",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "205",
  "heading": "General power to make regulations.",
  "text": "The Secretary of State or the Treasury may make regulations prescribing anything which by this Act is authorised or required to be prescribed.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 205, 205A substituted for s. 205 by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), s. 206(1), Sch. 23 para. 18"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 205 inserted (7.6.1992) by S.I. 1992/1315, art. 10(1), Sch. 4 para.7."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 205 amended (6.1.1997) by S.I. 1996/2827, reg. 24(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1986/60/section/205",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:53:57.234744+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."
}