{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-63W",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-63W.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/63W",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "63W",
  "heading": "Unregulated benchmarks",
  "text": "(1) A person does not carry on the activity of the kind specified by article 63U where they provide an ESG rating in the course of providing a benchmark to which the UK Benchmarks Regulation does not apply as a result of Article 2(2)(a) to (g) (scope: exclusions) of that Regulation.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), an ESG rating is not provided in the course of providing a benchmark of the kind mentioned in paragraph (1) where the ESG rating is provided as a standalone product or service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 2 Ch. 15F inserted (16.12.2025 for specified purposes) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (ESG Ratings) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/1349), arts. 2, 6 (with arts. 8-22)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/544/article/63W",
    "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."
}