{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-amendment-no-3-order-2003/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2003/2822",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No. 3) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-amendment-no-3-order-2003",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Company dealing in own shares as principal",
  "text": "After article 18 of the principal Order insert—\n“Dealing by a company in its own shares\n18A. (1) A company does not carry on an activity of the kind specified by article 14 by purchasing its own shares where section 162A of the Companies Act 1985 (Treasury shares) applies to the shares purchased.\n(2) A company does not carry on an activity of the kind specified by article 14 by dealing in its own shares held as treasury shares, in accordance with section 162D of that Act (Treasury shares: disposal and cancellation).\n(3) In this article “shares held as treasury shares” has the same meaning as in that Act.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1985 c. 6. Section 162A was inserted by the Companies (Acquisition of Own Shares) (Treasury Shares) Regulations 2003 (S.I. 2003/1116)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/2822/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:45:46.022905+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."
}