{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2000/section-62.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/62",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Applications for approval: procedure and right to refer to Tribunal.",
  "text": "(1) If the regulator to which an application is made under section 60 (“an application”) decides to grant the application, it must give written notice of its decision to each of the interested parties.\n(2) If the regulator to which an application is made proposes to refuse the application , or to grant the application subject to conditions or for a limited period (or both), it must give a warning notice to each of the interested parties.\n(3) If the regulator to which an application is made decides to refuse the application , or to grant the application subject to conditions or for a limited period (or both), it must give a decision notice to each of the interested parties.\n(4) If the regulator to which an application is made decides to refuse the application , or to grant the application subject to conditions or for a limited period (or both), each of the interested parties may refer the matter to the Tribunal.\n(5) “The interested parties”, in relation to an application, are—\n(a) the applicant;\n(b) the person in respect of whom the application is made (“A”); and\n(c) the person by whom A’s services are to be retained, if not the applicant.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(1) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 5 para. 6(2) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(2)-(4) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 5 para. 6(3)(a) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(2)-(4) substituted (1.4.2013) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 5 para. 6(3)(b) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(2) inserted (7.3.2016) by Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c. 33), ss. 23(7)(a), 148(5); S.I. 2015/490, art. 2(1)(c) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/492 (as amended by S.I. 2015/1660))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(3) inserted (7.3.2016) by Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c. 33), ss. 23(7)(b), 148(5); S.I. 2015/490, art. 2(1)(c) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/492 (as amended by S.I. 2015/1660))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(4) inserted (7.3.2016) by Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c. 33), ss. 23(7)(c), 148(5); S.I. 2015/490, art. 2(1)(c) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/492 (as amended by S.I. 2015/1660))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 62 modified (1.7.2009 for certain purposes, otherwise 30.6.2010) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) Order 2009 (S.I. 2009/1342), arts. 1(2), 34, {Sch. paras. 1, 3}"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 60-63 applied (with modifications) (31.12.2011) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Permissions, Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) (Northern Ireland Credit Unions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/2832), art. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 62 wholly in force at 1.12.2001; s. 62 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 431(2); s. 62 in force for specified purposes at 3.9.2001 by S.I. 2001/2632, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2; s. 62 in force in so far as not already in force at 1.12.2001 by S.I. 2001/3538, art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/8/section/62",
    "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."
}