{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-1EB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-1EB.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/1EB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1EB",
  "heading": "Competitiveness and growth objective",
  "text": "The competitiveness and growth objective is: facilitating, subject to aligning with relevant international standards—\n(a) the international competitiveness of the economy of the United Kingdom (including in particular the financial services sector), and\n(b) its growth in the medium to long term.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 1A substituted for Pt. 1 (24.1.2013 for specified purposes, 19.2.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 6(1), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/113, art. 2(1)(b)(c)(2), Sch. Pts. 2, 3, 4; S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 1EB inserted (29.8.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), ss. 25(3), 86(3); S.I. 2023/779, reg. 4(p)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/1EB",
    "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."
}