{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-communications-by-actuaries-regulations-2003/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-communications-by-actuaries-regulations-2003/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1294",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Communications by Actuaries) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-communications-by-actuaries-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Communications by Actuaries) Regulations 2003 and come into force on 1st September 2003.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n“contract of long-term insurance” has the same meaning as in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001;\n“relevant requirement” means—\n(a) a requirement which is imposed by or under any provision of the Act other than Part VI (official listing); or\n(b) a requirement which is imposed by or under any other Act and whose contravention constitutes an offence which the Authority has power to prosecute under the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2001/544; amended by S.I. 2001/3544, S.I. 2002/682, S.I. 2002/1310 and S.I. 2002/1776."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See in particular section 402 of the Act (power of the Authority to institute proceedings for offences under other enactments)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2013/472",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1294/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:24:05.342393+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."
}