{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-172",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-172.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/172",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "172",
  "heading": "Additional power of persons appointed as a result of section 168(1) , (4) or (4B).",
  "text": "(1) An investigator has the powers conferred by section 171.\n(2) An investigator may also require a person who is neither the subject of the investigation (“the person under investigation”) nor a person connected with the person under investigation—\n(a) to attend before the investigator at a specified time and place and answer questions; or\n(b) otherwise to provide such information as the investigator may require for the purposes of the investigation.\n(3) A requirement may only be imposed under subsection (2) if the investigator is satisfied that the requirement is necessary or expedient for the purposes of the investigation.\n(4) “Investigator” means a person appointed as a result of subsection (1) , (4) or (4B) of section 168.\n(5) “Specified” means specified in a notice in writing.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 172(4) substituted (14.1.2025) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Designated Activities) (Supervision and Enforcement) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/22), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 11(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 172 heading substituted (14.1.2025) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Designated Activities) (Supervision and Enforcement) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/22), reg. 1(2), Sch. para. 11(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 172 applied (20.4.2015 for specified purposes, 21.12.2015 for specified purposes, 21.3.2016 in so far as not already in force) by The Mortgage Credit Directive Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/910), arts. 1(5), 23(2)(h) (with Pt. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 172 applied (31.5.2021) by The Civil Liability Act 2018 (Financial Conduct Authority) (Whiplash) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/594), regs. 1, 2(4)(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 170-175 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(j) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 172 applied (with modifications) (14.1.2025 for specified purposes, 13.7.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Short Selling Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/29), regs. 2(2)(3), 24, 25, Sch. 1 Pts. 1, 2; S.I. 2026/587, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/172",
    "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."
}