{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-54B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-54B.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/54B",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "54B",
  "heading": "Advice given by reason of providing pensions guidance ...",
  "text": "(1) A person does not carry on an activity of the kind specified in article 53, 53A, 53B, 53C , 53D or 55A by reason of providing pensions guidance ....\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), pensions guidance means—\n(a) information or guidance provided by the Money and Pensions Service in carrying out its pensions guidance function (see section 3 of the Financial Guidance and Claims Act 2018);\n(b) information or guidance provided by another person with whom arrangements under section 5(1), (2) or (3) of the Financial Guidance and Claims Act 2018 are made to carry out the Money and Pensions Service’s pensions guidance function.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 54B(1) substituted (23.2.2026 for specified purposes, 6.4.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Providing Targeted Support) (Amendment) Order 2026 (S.I. 2026/74), art. 1(2)(3), Sch. para. 1(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 54B(1) omitted (21.7.2022) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/726), arts. 1(2), 2(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 54B(2) substituted (21.7.2022) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/726), arts. 1(2), 2(6)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 54B heading omitted (21.7.2022) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/726), arts. 1(2), 2(6)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/544/article/54B",
    "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."
}