{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2023/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2023/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/29",
  "legislation_title": "Financial Services and Markets Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-and-markets-act-2023",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Regulations",
  "text": "(1) A power to make regulations under this group of sections includes power conferring a discretion on an appropriate regulator, or another specified person, to do anything under, or for the purposes of, the regulations.\n(2) Before making regulations under this group of sections the Treasury must consult—\n(a) the appropriate regulators;\n(b) such other persons as the Treasury consider appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 16 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 86(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 16 in force at 29.8.2023 by S.I. 2023/779, reg. 4(k)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/29/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:52:13.792774+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."
}