{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-389",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-389.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/389",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "389",
  "heading": "Notices of discontinuance.",
  "text": "(1) If a regulator decides not to take—\n(a) the action proposed in a warning notice given by it, or\n(b) the action to which a decision notice given by it relates,\nit must give a notice of discontinuance to the person to whom the warning notice or decision notice was given.\n(2) But subsection (1) does not apply if the discontinuance of the proceedings concerned results in the granting of an application made by the person to whom the warning or decision notice was given.\n(3) A notice of discontinuance must identify the proceedings which are being discontinued.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 389(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 9 para. 28(a) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 389(1)(a) inserted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 9 para. 28(b) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 389(1)(b) inserted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 9 para. 28(b) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 389 applied (1.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/1228, regs. 1(2)(c), 8(c) (with reg. 1(2)(3)); S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 389 applied (N.I.) (1.11.2004) by Open-Ended Investment Companies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (S.R. 2004/335), regs. 1(1)(b), 8(c) (with reg. 1(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 389 applied (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Over the Counter Derivatives, Central Counterparties and Trade Repositories) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/504), regs. 1(2), 56 (with regs. 52-58)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 389 applied (21.11.2014) by The Central Securities Depositories Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2879), regs. 1(1), 5(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 389 applied (with modifications) by 2009 c. 1, s. 83ZV (as inserted (1.1.2015) by The Bank Recovery and Resolution Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3329), arts. 1(2), 97)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "S. 389 applied (with modifications) (26.6.2017) by The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds (Information on the Payer) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/692), regs. 1(2), 82 (with regs. 8, 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "S. 389 applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2014/2879, reg. 5C(10) (as inserted (28.11.2017) by The Central Securities Depositories Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1064), regs. 1, 5(9) (with regs. 7(4), 9(1)))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "S. 389 applied (31.5.2021) by The Civil Liability Act 2018 (Financial Conduct Authority) (Whiplash) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/594), regs. 1, 2(8)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C9",
      "text": "S. 389 applied (1.7.2021) by Regulation (EU) No. 600/2014, Art. 49B(7) (as inserted by Financial Services Act 2021 (c. 22), s. 49(5), Sch. 10 para. 9; S.I. 2021/739, reg. 3(o))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C10",
      "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": "C11",
      "text": "S. 389 applied (with modifications) (31.12.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), s. 86(3), Sch. 11 para. 140; S.I. 2023/1382, reg. 8(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C12",
      "text": "S. 389 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, 26, Sch. 1 Pts. 1, 2, 3; 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/389",
    "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."
}