{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-19.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/19",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "The general prohibition.",
  "text": "(1) No person may carry on a regulated activity in the United Kingdom, or purport to do so, unless he is—\n(a) an authorised person; or\n(b) an exempt person.\n(2) The prohibition is referred to in this Act as the general prohibition.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 19(1) excluded (temp.) by S.I. 2013/1773, reg. 72(6B)(a) (as inserted (16.6.2014) by The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/1292), arts. 1(2), 4(5)(b))(as amended by S.I. 2014/1313, arts. 1, 2(a))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 19(1)(b) modified by S.I. 2018/1149, reg. 47 (as inserted (1.3.2019) by The Financial Services Contracts (Transitional and Saving Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/405), regs. 1(2), 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/19",
    "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."
}