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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-financial-promotion-amendment-electronic-commerce-directive-order-2002/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/2157",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) (Electronic Commerce Directive) Order 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-financial-promotion-amendment-electronic-commerce-directive-order-2002",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Incoming electronic commerce communications",
  "text": "After article 20A, insert—\n“Incoming electronic commerce communications\n20B (1) The financial promotion restriction does not apply to an incoming electronic commerce communication.\n(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to—\n(a) a communication which constitutes an advertisement by the operator of a UCITS Directive scheme of units in that scheme;\n(b) a communication consisting of an invitation or inducement to enter into a contract of insurance, where—\n(i) the communication is made by an undertaking which has received official authorisation in accordance with Article 6 of the first life insurance directive or the first non-life insurance directive, and\n(ii) the insurance falls within the scope of any of the insurance directives; or\n(c) an unsolicited communication made by electronic mail.\n(3) In this article, “UCITS Directive scheme” means an undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities which is subject to Directive 85/611/EEC of the Council of the European Communities of 20 December 1985 on the co-ordination of laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities, and has been authorised in accordance with Article 4 of that Directive.\n(4) For the purposes of this article, a communication by electronic mail is to be regarded as unsolicited, unless it is made in response to an express request from the recipient of the communication.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L375/3, 31 December 1985."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/2157/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:50:28.322870+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."
}