{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-260",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-260.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/260",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "260",
  "heading": "Procedure: refusal to revoke or vary direction.",
  "text": "(1) If on an application under section 257(6) for a direction to be revoked or varied the FCA proposes—\n(a) to vary the direction otherwise than in accordance with the application, or\n(b) to refuse to revoke or vary the direction,\nit must give the applicant a warning notice.\n(2) If the FCA decides to refuse to revoke or vary the direction—\n(a) it must give the applicant a decision notice; and\n(b) the applicant may refer the matter to the Tribunal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in ss. 254-262 substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 18 para. 9(1)(2) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 260 wholly in force at 1.12.2001; s. 260 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 431(2); s. 260 in force for specified purposes at 3.9.2001 by S.I. 2001/2632, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2; s. 260 in force in so far as not already in force at 1.12.2001 by S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/260",
    "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."
}