{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001/article-164",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001/article-164.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/3649",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001",
  "path": "article/164",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "164",
  "heading": "Restriction on disclosure of information",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 7 to the Bank of England Act 1998 (restriction on disclosure of information) is amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph 2(2) substitute—\n“(2) “Credit institution” means an undertaking whose business is to receive deposits or other repayable funds from the public and to grant credits for its own account.”.\n(3) For the Table in paragraph (3) substitute—\n“\nThe Treasury.\nFunctions under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.\nThe Secretary of State.\nFunctions under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.\nAn inspector appointed under Part 14 of the Companies Act 1985 or Part 15 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.\nFunctions under that Part.\nA person authorised to exercise powers under section 447 of the Companies Act 1985, Article 440 of the Companies (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 or section 84 of the Companies Act 1989.\nFunctions under that section or Article.\nA person appointed under—\n(a) section 167 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000,\n(b) subsection (3) or (5) of section 168 of that Act, or\n(c) section 284 of that Act,\nto conduct an investigation.\nFunctions in relation to that investigation.\nThe Financial Services Authority.\nFunctions under the legislation relating to friendly societies, the Building Societies Act 1986, Part 7 of the Companies Act 1989 or the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.\nThe competent authority for the purposes of Part 6 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.\nFunctions under that Part.\nThe Office for National Statistics.\nFunctions under the Statistics of Trade Act 1947.\nThe Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority\nFunctions under the Pension Schemes Act 1993 or the Pensions Act 1995 or any enactment in force in Northern Ireland corresponding to either of them.\n”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 164 in force at 1.12.2001, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3649/article/164",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:23:30.014012+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."
}