{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-138C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-138C.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/138C",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "138C",
  "heading": "Evidential provisions",
  "text": "(1) If a particular rule made by either regulator so provides, contravention of the rule does not give rise to any of the consequences provided for by other provisions of this Act.\n(2) A rule made by a regulator which so provides must also provide—\n(a) that contravention may be relied on as tending to establish contravention of such other rule made by that regulator as may be specified, or\n(b) that compliance may be relied on as tending to establish compliance with such other rule made by that regulator as may be specified.\n(3) A rule may include the provision mentioned in subsection (1) only if the regulator making the rule considers that it is appropriate for it also to include the provision required by subsection (2).\n(4) In this section “rule” does not include a rule made under—\n(a) section 137O (threshold condition code);\n(b) section 192J (provision of information by parent undertakings).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 9A substituted for ss. 138-164 (24.1.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 24(1), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/113, art. 2(1)(c), Sch. Pt. 3; S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 138C applied (1.7.2021) by Regulation (EU) No. 648/2012, Art. 84b(1)(2) (as inserted by Financial Services Act 2021 (c. 22), ss. 40(4), 49(5); S.I. 2021/739, reg. 3(v))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. 9A Ch. 2 applied in part (1.7.2021) by Regulation (EU) No. 600/2014, Art. 50D (as inserted by Financial Services Act 2021 (c. 22), s. 49(5), Sch. 10 para. 12 (with Sch. 10 para. 13); S.I. 2021/739, reg. 3(o))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Pt. 9A applied (1.7.2021) by Regulation (EU) No. 600/2014, Art. 49A(12) (as inserted by Financial Services Act 2021 (c. 22), s. 49(5), Sch. 10 para. 9; S.I. 2021/739, reg. 3(o))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 138C applied (8.6.2023 for specified purposes, 7.10.2023 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/612), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(e) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 138C applied (with modifications) (29.8.2023) by Regulation (EU) No. 648/2012, Art. 84c (as inserted by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), s. 86(3), Sch. 2 para. 30 (with s. 2(3)); S.I. 2023/779, reg. 4(zz)(ii))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 138C applied (with modifications) (18.9.2023) by S.I. 2017/752, Sch. 6 para. 3(2A) (as inserted by The Electronic Money, Payment Card Interchange Fee and Payment Services (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/790), regs. 1(2)(a), 4(5)(a)(iv))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 138C applied (with modifications) (18.9.2023) by S.I. 2011/99, Sch. 3 para. 2A(2A) (as inserted by The Electronic Money, Payment Card Interchange Fee and Payment Services (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/790), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(3)(a)(iv))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "S. 138C applied (30.1.2024 for specified purposes, 1.11.2024 in so far as not already in force) by The Securitisation Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/102), reg. 2(1)(e)(2), Sch. 1 para. 9(2)(c) (with reg. 52(3), Sch. 3); as amended by S.I. 2024/705, regs. 1(2), 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/138C",
    "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."
}