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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-benchmarks-regulations-2018/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2018/135",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Benchmarks) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-benchmarks-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Restriction on penalties",
  "text": "(1) A person who is convicted of an offence under regulation 16 (misleading the FCA) is not subsequently liable to a penalty under regulation 11 (financial penalties) in respect of the same acts or omissions that constituted the offence.\n(2) A person on whom a penalty has been imposed under regulation 11 (financial penalties) is not subsequently liable for an offence under regulation 16 (misleading the FCA) in respect of the same contravention that led to the imposition of the penalty.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/135/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:02:39.118596+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."
}