{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2017/regulation-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2017/regulation-47.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/701",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Reports and applications",
  "text": "(1) The FCA may direct the manner in which a person must—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) report to the FCA ... the basis on which a person considers an activity ... to be ancillary to that person's main business;\n(c) make an application for—\n(i) a waiver under Article 4 (waivers for equity instruments) of the markets in financial instruments regulation;\n(ii) an authorisation under Article 7 (authorisation of deferred publication) of the markets in financial instruments regulation;\n(iii) a waiver under Article 9 (waivers for non-equity instruments) of the markets in financial instruments regulation; and\n(iv) an authorisation under Article 11 (authorisation of deferred publication) of the markets in financial instruments regulation.\n(2) An application mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) must contain or be accompanied by such information as the FCA may reasonably require for the purpose of determining the application.\n(3) At any time after receiving an application mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) and before determining it the FCA may require the applicant to provide the FCA with such further information as the FCA reasonably considers necessary to enable the FCA to determine the application.\n(4) The FCA may give different directions, and may impose different requirements, in relation to different applications.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 47(1)(a) omitted (1.1.2025) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Commodity Derivatives and Emission Allowances) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/548), arts. 1(2), 3(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 47(1)(b) omitted (1.1.2025) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Commodity Derivatives and Emission Allowances) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/548), arts. 1(2), 3(3)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 47(1)(b) omitted (1.1.2025) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Commodity Derivatives and Emission Allowances) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/548), arts. 1(2), 3(3)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 47 heading substituted (1.1.2025) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Commodity Derivatives and Emission Allowances) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/548), arts. 1(2), 3(3)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2025/1205",
      "affecting_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/701/regulation/47",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:10:02.096065+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."
}