{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-36FA",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-36FA.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/544",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001",
  "path": "article/36FA",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "36FA",
  "heading": "Activities carried on by registered social landlords",
  "text": "(1) There are excluded from article 36A (credit broking) activities carried on by a registered social landlord, for which the registered social landlord does not receive a fee.\n(2) The exclusion in paragraph (1) only applies to activities relating to the introduction of an individual who wishes to enter into a credit agreement, to—\n(a) a credit union;\n(b) a community benefit society;\n(c) a community interest company limited by guarantee;\n(d) a registered charity, or a subsidiary of a registered charity;\n(e) a subsidiary of a registered social landlord.\n(3) For the purposes of this article, “fee” includes pecuniary consideration or any other form of financial consideration.\n(4) In this article—\n“community benefit society” means a registered society within the meaning of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014 or a registered society within the meaning of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act (Northern Ireland) 1969;\n“community interest company limited by guarantee” means a community interest company limited by guarantee within the meaning of section 26 of the Companies (Audit, Investigations and Community Enterprise) Act 2004;\n“credit union” means a credit union within the meaning of—\n(a)the Credit Unions Act 1979;\n(b)the Credit Unions (Northern Ireland) Order 1985;\n“registered charity” means\n(a)in England and Wales, a charity registered under section 30(1) of the Charities Act 2011;\n(b)in Scotland, a charity registered within the meaning of section 13(1) of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005\n(c)in Northern Ireland, a charity registered under section 16(2) of the Charities Act (Northern Ireland) 2008;\n“registered social landlord” means—\n(a)in England, a private registered provider within the meaning of section 80(3) of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008;\n(b)in Wales, a registered social landlord within the meaning of Part 1 of the Housing Act 1996;\n(c)in Scotland, a registered social landlord within the meaning of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010;\n(d)in Northern Ireland, a housing association within the meaning of Part 2 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992;\n“subsidiary” means a subsidiary as defined by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. II Ch. 6A, 6B inserted (26.7.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2014 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1881), art. 1(2)(6), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 36FA inserted (23.7.2019) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2019 (S.I. 2019/1067), arts. 1(2), 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/544/article/36FA",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:01:12.377334+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."
}