{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-act-2012-transitional-provisions-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2013/article-22",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2013/442",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services Act 2012 (Transitional Provisions) (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-act-2012-transitional-provisions-miscellaneous-provisions-order-2013",
  "path": "article/22",
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  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Legal professional privilege",
  "text": "(1) Paragraphs (2) and (3) apply in respect of legally privileged information disclosed by the FCA to—\n(a) the PRA, for the purposes of the PRA’s functions; or\n(b) to the Bank of England for the Bank of England’s functions conferred by or under FSMA 2000.\n(2) In respect of any legally privileged information disclosed by the FCA to the PRA—\n(a) the disclosure is to be ignored for the purposes of any claim to legal professional privilege or, in Scotland, confidentiality of communications which the FCA is entitled to make; and\n(b) the PRA is to be entitled to claim legal professional privilege or, in Scotland, confidentiality of communications in respect of the information.\n(3) In respect of any legally privileged information disclosed by the FCA to the Bank of England—\n(a) the disclosure is to be ignored for the purposes of any claim to legal professional privilege or, in Scotland, confidentiality of communications which the FCA is entitled to make; and\n(b) the Bank is to be entitled to claim legal professional privilege or, in Scotland, confidentiality of communications in respect of the information.\n(4) In this article, “legally privileged information” means information received or generated by the Authority, before the commencement date, in respect of which the FCA could maintain a claim to legal professional privilege or, in Scotland, to confidentiality of communications in legal proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/442/article/22",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:52.634001+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."
}