{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-3RE",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-3RE.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/3RE",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3RE",
  "heading": "Power of Treasury to require making of rules by regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Treasury may by regulations require a regulator to exercise a power under this Act to make rules in relation to a specified activity or a specified description of person.\n(2) Regulations under this section may—\n(a) specify matters that the rules must cover;\n(b) specify a period within which the rules must be made.\n(3) But except so far as permitted by subsection (2), regulations under this section may not require rules to be made—\n(a) in a specified form or with specified content, or\n(b) to achieve or advance a specified outcome.\n(4) If no period is specified under subsection (2)(b) the rules must be made as soon as reasonably practicable after the coming into force of the regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 3RA-3RD and cross-heading inserted (29.8.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), ss. 29(2), 86(3); S.I. 2023/779, reg. 4(t)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 3RE inserted (29.8.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), ss. 30(2), 86(3); S.I. 2023/779, reg. 4(u)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/3RE",
    "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."
}