{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-55A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-55A.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/55A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "55A",
  "heading": "Application for permission",
  "text": "(1) An application for permission to carry on one or more regulated activities may be made to the appropriate regulator by—\n(a) an individual,\n(b) a body corporate,\n(c) a partnership, or\n(d) an unincorporated association.\n(2) “The appropriate regulator”, in relation to an application under this section, means (subject to subsection (2B))—\n(a) the PRA, in a case where—\n(i) the regulated activities to which the application relates consist of or include a PRA-regulated activity, or\n(ii) the applicant is a PRA-authorised person otherwise than by virtue of a Part 4A permission;\n(b) the FCA, in any other case.\n(2A) An application under this section for permission to carry on the regulated activity specified in article 63S of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 may not include an application for permission to carry on any other regulated activity.\n(2B) The appropriate regulator, in relation to an application under this section for permission to carry on the regulated activity specified in article 63S of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001, is the FCA.\n(3) An authorised person who has a permission under this Part which is in force may not apply for permission under this section.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) A permission given by the appropriate regulator under this Part or having effect as if so given is referred to in this Act as “a Part 4A permission”.\n(6) References in this section to permission under this Part do not include references to permission under section 55NA.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 4A substituted for ss. 40-55 (24.1.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 11(2), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/113, art. 2(1)(b)(c), Sch. Pts. 2, 3; S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 55A(2) inserted (27.2.2018) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Benchmarks) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/135), regs. 1(2), 40(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 55A(2A)(2B) inserted (27.2.2018) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Benchmarks) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/135), regs. 1(2), 40(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 55A(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The EEA Passport Rights (Amendment, etc., and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1149), reg. 1(3), Sch. para. 5 (with reg. 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 55A(6) inserted (6.9.2023 for specified purposes, 6.11.2023 for specified purposes, 7.2.2024 in so far as not already in force) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), s. 86(3), Sch. 5 para. 4 (with s. 20(5)); S.I. 2023/936, reg. 2(1)(a)(b)(2)(b)(ii)(3)(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 55A(3) excluded by S.I. 2011/2832, art. 5(3) (as amended) (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/472), Sch. 2 para. 220(a)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 55A(3) modified (2.4.2013) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/655), arts. 1, 10(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 55A(3) modified (26.7.2013 for specified purposes, 2.9.2013 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1881), arts. 1(2)(5), 59(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "S. 55A(3) modified (1.4.2015) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/369), arts. 1, 7(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "S. 55A(3) modified (E.W.S.) (29.11.2018 for specified purposes, 1.4.2019 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Claims Management Activity) Order 2018 (S.I. 2018/1253), arts. 1(2)(3), 83(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/55A",
    "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."
}