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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-financial-promotion-order-2005/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-financial-promotion-order-2005/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Interpretation: real time communications",
  "text": "(1) In this Order, references to a real time communication are references to any communication made in the course of a personal visit, telephone conversation or other interactive dialogue.\n(2) A non-real time communication is a communication not falling within paragraph (1).\n(3) For the purposes of this Order, non-real time communications include communications made by letter or e-mail or contained in a publication.\n(4) For the purposes of this Order, the factors in paragraph (5) are to be treated as indications that a communication is a non-real time communication.\n(5) The factors are that—\n(a) the communication is made to or directed at more than one recipient in identical terms (save for details of the recipient's identity);\n(b) the communication is made or directed by way of a system which in the normal course constitutes or creates a record of the communication which is available to the recipient to refer to at a later time;\n(c) the communication is made or directed by way of a system which in the normal course does not enable or require the recipient to respond immediately to it.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/1529/article/7",
    "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."
}