{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-ring-fenced-bodies-and-core-activities-order-2014/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1960",
  "legislation_title": "The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Ring-fenced Bodies and Core Activities) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000-ring-fenced-bodies-and-core-activities-order-2014",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Meaning of qualifying organisation",
  "text": "(1) An organisation is a qualifying organisation in relation to a UK deposit-taker if that deposit-taker, having made reasonable inquiries, determines that the organisation meets the relevant qualifying condition for the relevant financial year.\n(2) The relevant qualifying condition is set out—\n(a) in the case of a body corporate or a partnership, in article 4;\n(b) in the case of an organisation which is not a body corporate or a partnership, in article 5.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 3 substituted (1.12.2016) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Ring-fenced Bodies, Core Activities, Excluded Activities and Prohibitions) (Amendment) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/1032), arts. 1(2), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 3(3) omitted (4.2.2025) by virtue of The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Ring-fenced Bodies, Core Activities, Excluded Activities and Prohibitions) (Amendment) Order 2025 (S.I. 2025/30), arts. 1(2), 4(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1960/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:35.095590+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."
}