# The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consumer Credit) (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014, Article 3: The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 is amended as follows.
(2) In article 34 (governments, central banks etc), at the end of paragraph (b)(ii), insert “except for a communication which relates to a regulated credit agreement (within the meaning given in article 60B of the Regulated Activities Order (regulated credit agreements)) where entering into the agreement, or exercising or having the right to exercise rights under the agreement, constitutes the carrying on of a regulated activity of the kind specified by article 60B of the Regulated Activities Order and the exclusion in article 72G of that Order (local authorities) does not apply”.
(3) After article 55A (non-real time communication by members of profession), insert—
“Insolvency practitioners
55B. The financial promotion restriction does not apply to any non-real time communication or solicited real time communication by a person acting as an insolvency practitioner (within the meaning of the Regulated Activities Order) who carries on an activity which would be a regulated activity but for article 72H of the Regulated Activities Order (insolvency practitioners).”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/506/article/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-consumer-credit-miscellaneous-provisions-no-2-order-2014/article-3
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