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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-76.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/76",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Shares etc.",
  "text": "(1) Shares or stock in the share capital of—\n(a) any body corporate (wherever incorporated), and\n(b) any unincorporated body constituted under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom.\n(2) Paragraph (1) includes—\n(a) any shares of a class defined as deferred shares for the purposes of section 119 of the Building Societies Act 1986 or section 31A of the Credit Unions Act 1979; and\n(b) any transferable shares in a body incorporated under the law of, or any part of, the United Kingdom relating to co-operative and community benefit societies, industrial and provident societies or credit unions, or in a body constituted under the law of another EEA State for purposes equivalent to those of such a body.\n(3) But subject to paragraph (2) there are excluded from paragraph (1) shares or stock in the share capital of—\n(a) an open-ended investment company;\n(b) a building society incorporated under the law of, or any part of, the United Kingdom;\n(c) a body incorporated under the law of, or any part of, the United Kingdom relating to co-operative and community benefit societies, industrial and provident societies or credit unions;\n(d) any body constituted under the law of an EEA State for purposes equivalent to those of a body falling within sub-paragraph (b) or (c).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in art. 76 inserted (8.1.2012) by The Legislative Reform (Industrial and Provident Societies and Credit Unions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2687), arts. 1(1)(b), 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in art. 76(2)(b) inserted (1.8.2014) by The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1815), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in art. 76(3)(c) inserted (1.8.2014) by The Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies and Credit Unions Act 2010 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1815), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1986 c. 53."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/544/article/76",
    "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."
}