{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-385",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-385.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/385",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "385",
  "heading": "Warning notices.",
  "text": "(1) If a regulator proposes to exercise the power under section 384(5) in relation to a person, it must give him a warning notice.\n(2) A warning notice under this section must specify the amount which the regulator proposes to require the person concerned to pay or distribute as mentioned in section 384(5).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 385(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 9 para. 24(2) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 385(2) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 9 para. 24(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 385 excluded (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3592, arts. 1(2), 61(6) (with art. 23(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 385 applied (31.5.2021) by The Civil Liability Act 2018 (Financial Conduct Authority) (Whiplash) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/594), regs. 1, 2(7)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Ss. 385-391 applied (8.6.2023 for specified purposes, 7.10.2023 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/612), art. 1(2), Sch. para. 1(r) (with art. 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 385 applied (with modifications) (14.1.2025 for specified purposes, 13.7.2026 in so far as not already in force) by The Short Selling Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/29), regs. 2(2)(3), 24, 25, Sch. 1 Pts. 1, 2; S.I. 2026/587, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/385",
    "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."
}