{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-banking-reform-act-2013/section-83",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/33",
  "legislation_title": "Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/financial-services-banking-reform-act-2013",
  "path": "section/83",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "83",
  "heading": "Appointment of persons to conduct investigations",
  "text": "(1) If it considers that it is desirable to do so in order to advance any of its payment systems objectives, the Payment Systems Regulator may appoint one or more competent persons to conduct an investigation on its behalf into the nature, conduct or state of the business of any participant in a regulated payment system.\n(2) If it appears to the Payment Systems Regulator that there are circumstances suggesting that there may have been a compliance failure, the Payment Systems Regulator may appoint one or more competent persons to conduct an investigation on its behalf.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 81-93 applied (with modifications) (9.12.2015) by The Payment Card Interchange Fee Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1911), regs. 1, 14(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Ss. 81-93 applied (with modifications) (13.1.2018) by The Payment Services Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/752), regs. 1(6), 135(1) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 83 in force at 1.3.2014 by S.I. 2014/377, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. Pt. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/33/section/83",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:07:58.389751+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."
}