{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-financial-promotion-order-2005/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-financial-promotion-order-2005/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/1529",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-financial-promotion-order-2005",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Interpretation: communications",
  "text": "In this Order—\n(a) any reference to a communication is a reference to the communication, in the course of business, of an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity;\n(b) any reference to a communication being made to another person is a reference to a communication being addressed, whether orally or in legible form, to a particular person or persons (for example where it is contained in a telephone call or letter);\n(c) any reference to a communication being directed at persons is a reference to a communication being addressed to persons generally (for example where it is contained in a television broadcast or web site);\n(d) “communicate” includes causing a communication to be made or directed;\n(e) a “recipient” of a communication is the person to whom the communication is made or, in the case of a non-real time communication which is directed at persons generally, any person who reads or hears the communication;\n(f) “electronic commerce communication” means a communication, the making of which constitutes the provision of an information society service;\n(g) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 6(g) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/632), regs. 1(3), 164 (with reg. 162(2)) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1301, regs. 1, 3, Sch. para. 33(u) and with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11 (as amended by S.I. 2019/1212, regs. 1(3), 22(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 6(h) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/632), regs. 1(3), 164 (with reg. 162(2)) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1301, regs. 1, 3, Sch. para. 33(u) and with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11 (as amended by S.I. 2019/1212, regs. 1(3), 22(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1529/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:57:52.457126+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."
}