{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-etc-amendment-order-2025/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-etc-amendment-order-2025/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/859",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities etc.) (Amendment) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-etc-amendment-order-2025",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Relevant applications",
  "text": "(1) In relation to a relevant application, the FCA, may by direction specify the date on or after which a relevant application may be made, provided that date is before the regulatory commencement date.\n(2) A direction given under this article may—\n(a) specify different dates for different persons or classes of person or for different descriptions of activities;\n(b) impose different requirements for different circumstances or different categories of application;\n(c) be amended, substituted or revoked by a further direction.\n(3) The last date on which a relevant application may be made (“the last application date”) is the day six months after the regulatory commencement date.\n(4) Subject to article 11(5), a relevant application made before any date specified by a direction given in accordance with paragraph (1) is to be treated as if it had not been made.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 12 in force at 15.7.2025 for specified purposes and 15.7.2026 in so far as not already in force, see art. 1(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/859/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:15.659008+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."
}