{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001/article-278",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consequential-amendments-and-repeals-order-2001/article-278.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/278",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "278",
  "heading": "Obtaining a money transfer by deception: interpretation",
  "text": "(1) Section 15B of the Theft Act 1968 (obtaining a money transfer by deception: interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (4), the words after paragraph (b) are repealed.\n(3) After that subsection insert—\n“(4A) References in subsection (4) to a deposit must be read with—\n(a) section 22 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;\n(b) any relevant order under that section; and\n(c) Schedule 2 to that Act,\nbut any restriction on the meaning of deposit which arises from the identity of the person making it is to be disregarded.”.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 278 in force at 1.12.2001, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 15B was inserted by the Theft (Amendment) Act 1996 (c. 62) s. 1(1)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/3649/article/278",
    "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."
}