{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-373",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-373.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/373",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "373",
  "heading": "Insolvency practitioner’s duty to report to FCA and PRA.",
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) a bankruptcy order or sequestration award is in force in relation to an individual ..., and\n(b) it appears to the insolvency practitioner that the individual is carrying on, or has carried on—\n(i) a regulated activity in contravention of the general prohibition, or\n(ii) a credit-related regulated activity in contravention of section 20,\nthe insolvency practitioner must report the matter without delay to the FCA and, if the regulated activity concerned is a PRA-regulated activity, to the PRA.\n(1A) Subsection (1) does not apply where—\n(a) the bankruptcy order or sequestration award is in force by virtue of a petition presented by a regulator, and\n(b) the regulator's petition depended on a contravention by the individual of the general prohibition.\n(2) “Bankruptcy order” means a bankruptcy order under Part IX of the 1986 Act (or Part IX of the 1989 Order).\n(3) “Sequestration award” means an award of sequestration under section 22 of the 2016 Act.\n(4) “Individual” includes an entity mentioned in section 374(1)(c).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 373(1)(a) omitted (1.4.2013) by virtue of Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 14 para. 21(2)(a) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 373(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 14 para. 21(2)(b) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 373(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 14 para. 21(2)(c) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 373(1A) inserted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 14 para. 21(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 373(3) substituted (30.11.2016) by The Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2016 (S.I. 2016/1034), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 20(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 373 heading substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 14 para. 21(4) (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/373",
    "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."
}