{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-313A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-313A.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/313A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "313A",
  "heading": "FCA's power to require suspension or removal of financial instruments from trading",
  "text": "(1) The FCA may, for the purpose of protecting—\n(a) the interests of investors, or\n(b) the orderly functioning of the financial markets,\nrequire an institution or a class of institutions to suspend or remove a financial instrument from trading.\n(2) If the FCA exercises the power conferred by subsection (1), the matter may be referred to the Tribunal by—\n(a) the institution or, as the case may be, any institution in the class, or\n(b) the issuer of the financial instrument (if any).\n(3) In this section, “trading” includes trading otherwise than on a trading venue .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 18A inserted (1.4.2007 for certain purposes and 1.11.2007 otherwise) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/126), regs. 1(2), 3(3), Sch. 3 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Pt. 18A substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 36(a), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 313A(1) inserted (9.4.2010) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendments to Part 18A etc.) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1193), reg. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 313A(2) substituted (9.4.2010) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendments to Part 18A etc.) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/1193), reg. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 313A(3) substituted (29.6.2017 for specified purposes, 3.7.2017 for specified purposes, 31.7.2017 for specified purposes, 3.1.2018 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/701), reg. 1(2)(3)(4)(6), Sch. 2 para. 39 (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Pt. 18A substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 36(b), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/313A",
    "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."
}