{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-309E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-309E.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/309E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "309E",
  "heading": "Offence of breaching prohibition",
  "text": "(1) An individual who performs a function, or agrees to perform a function, in breach of a Part 18 prohibition order is guilty of an offence.\n(2) An individual who commits an offence under this section is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction in England and Wales, to a fine;\n(b) on summary conviction in Scotland, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale;\n(c) on summary conviction in Northern Ireland, to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(3) In proceedings for an offence under this section, it is a defence for the individual to show that the individual took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid committing the offence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 18 Ch. 2A inserted (29.6.2023 for specified purposes) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), s. 86(1)(e), Sch. 10 para. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/309E",
    "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."
}