{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-312F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-312F.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/312F",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "312F",
  "heading": "Financial penalties",
  "text": "(1) If the appropriate regulator considers that a recognised body or data reporting service provider has contravened a relevant requirement imposed on the body or provider, it may impose on the body or provider a penalty, in respect of the contravention, of such amount as it considers appropriate.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 18 Ch. 3B inserted (24.1.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 33, 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/113, art. 2(1)(b)(c), Sch. Pts. 2, 3; S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 312F renumbered as s. 312F(1) (28.11.2017) by The Central Securities Depositories Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1064), regs. 1, 2(28)(a) (with regs. 7(4), 9(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 312F(1) inserted (29.8.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), ss. 11(6)(a), 86(3); S.I. 2023/779, reg. 4(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 312F(1) inserted (29.8.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), ss. 11(6)(b), 86(3); S.I. 2023/779, reg. 4(g)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 312F(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Investment Exchanges, Clearing Houses and Central Securities Depositories (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/662), regs. 1(3), 8(3) (with savings in S.I. 2019/680, reg. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 312E-312I restricted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Transitional Provisions) (Enforcement) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/441), arts. 1(1), 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 312F applied (with modifications) (13.7.2016) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Transparency of Securities Financing Transactions and of Reuse) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/715), regs. 1(2), 13"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/312F",
    "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."
}