{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-market-abuse-regulations-2016/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2016/680",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Market Abuse) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-market-abuse-regulations-2016",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2000 Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ;\n“the FCA” means the Financial Conduct Authority;\n“the market abuse regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on market abuse (market abuse regulation) and repealing Directive 2003/6/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and Commission Directives 2003/124/EC, 2003/125/EC and 2004/72/EC , as it forms part of assimilated law; and\n. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n“supplementary market abuse enactment” means—\n(a)any EU regulation made under the market abuse regulation which is assimilated direct legislation;\n(b)any instrument made under the market abuse regulation on or after IP completion day",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (19.2.2019) by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/310), regs. 1(2), 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completiton day) by The Securities Financing Transactions, Securitisation and Miscellaneous Amendments (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1385), reg. 1(4), Sch. para. 1(1), (2)(j)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 9 para. 21(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/310), regs. 1(3), 7(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (31.12.2020) by The Market Abuse (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/310), regs. 1(3), 7(2)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1301, regs. 1, 3, Sch. para. 17(c)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 9 para. 21(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2000 c. 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "OJ No L 173, 14.04.2014, p31."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2016/680/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:31.333537+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."
}