{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-89W",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-regulated-activities-order-2001/article-89W.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/89W",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "89W",
  "heading": "Services in connection with counterclaims and claims against third parties",
  "text": "There is excluded from articles 89G to 89M any activity carried on in circumstances where—\n(a) a claim has been made by a person (“the claimant”) against another person (“the defendant”); and\n(b) the activity being carried on consists of the provision of a service to the defendant in connection with—\n(i) the making of a counterclaim against the claimant arising out of the same set of facts as the claim referred to in sub-paragraph (a); or\n(ii) the making of a claim against a third party (whether for contribution, as a subrogated claim, or otherwise) which is incidental to, or consequent on, the claim referred to in sub-paragraph (a).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 3B inserted (E.W.S.) (29.11.2018 for specified purposes, 1.4.2019 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Claims Management Activity) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1253), art. 1(2)(3), 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/544/article/89W",
    "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."
}