{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-322",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-322.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/322",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "322",
  "heading": "Rules applicable to former underwriting members.",
  "text": "(1) The PRA may make rules imposing such requirements on persons to whom the rules apply as appear to it to be appropriate for protecting policyholders against the risk that those persons may not be able to meet their liabilities.\n(2) The rules may apply to—\n(a) former underwriting members generally; or\n(b) to a class of former underwriting member specified in them.\n(3) Section 319 applies to the making of proposed rules under this section as it applies to the giving of a proposed direction under section 316.\n(4) Part 9A (except sections 137T, 138F, 138G and 138H) does not apply to rules made under this section.\n(5) In the event that the activity of effecting or carrying out contracts of insurance as principal is not to any extent a PRA-regulated activity, the function conferred on the PRA by subsection (1) is exercisable instead by the FCA.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 322(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 40(11)(a), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 322(4) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 40(11)(b), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 322(5) inserted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 40(11)(c), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 322 wholly in force at 1.12.2001; s. 322 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 431(2); s. 322 in force for specified purposes at 18.6.2001 by S.I. 2001/1820, art. 2, Sch.; s. 322 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/322",
    "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."
}