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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2017/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-markets-in-financial-instruments-regulations-2017/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Meaning of “exempt investment firm” in Chapter 1",
  "text": "In this Chapter “exempt investment firm” means an authorised person who—\n(a) is an investment firm; and\n(b) has a Part 4A permission;\nbut to whom the appropriate regulator has granted exemption from authorisation and operating conditions which usually apply to investment firms.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Markets in Financial Instruments (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1403), regs. 1(3), 8(3) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/701/regulation/8",
    "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."
}