{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-122F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-122F.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2000/8",
  "legislation_title": "Financial Services and Markets Act 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000",
  "path": "section/122F",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "122F",
  "heading": "Offences",
  "text": "(1) If a person (“A”) fails to comply with a requirement imposed on A under section 122B or 122C the FCA may certify that fact in writing to the court.\n(2) If the court is satisfied that A failed without reasonable excuse to comply with the requirement, it may deal with A (and where A is a body corporate, any director or other officer) as if A (or as the case may be the director or officer) were in contempt.\n(3) A person (“B”) who, in purported compliance with a requirement imposed on B under section 122B or 122C—\n(a) provides information which B knows to be false or misleading in a material particular; or\n(b) recklessly provides information which is false or misleading in a material particular;\nis guilty of an offence.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (3) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction—\n(i) in England and Wales, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine, or both;\n(ii) in Scotland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both;\n(iii) in Northern Ireland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or a fine, or both.\n(5) Any person who intentionally obstructs the exercise of any rights conferred by a warrant under section 122D is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction—\n(a) in England and Wales, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine, or both;\n(b) in Scotland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or both;\n(c) in Northern Ireland, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, or both.\n(6) In this section—\n(a) “court” means—\n(i) the High Court;\n(ii) in Scotland, the Court of Session;\n(b) “officer”, in relation to a limited liability partnership, means a member of the partnership.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 122A-122I and cross-headings inserted (3.7.2016) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Market Abuse) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/680), regs. 1, 9(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/122F",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:21.899993+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."
}