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The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2001

S.I. 2001/3436 · Made 18 October 2001

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FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS

Made 18th October 2001

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 431(2) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000f1 (“the Act”), hereby make the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

2000 c. 8.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Commencement No. 6) Order 2001.

2

19th October 2001 is the day appointed for the coming into force of section 402 of the Act (power of the Financial Services Authority to institute proceedings for certain offences), for the purposes of proceedings for offences under prescribed regulations relating to money laundering.

Signature

Anne McGuire

John Heppell

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

18th October 2001

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 19th October 2001 section 402 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (power of the Authority to institute proceedings for certain offences), for the purposes of proceedings for offences under prescribed regulations relating to money laundering. The Money Laundering Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1933, as amended) were prescribed for the purposes of section 402 by S.I. 2001/1819.