{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investor-compensation-scheme-regulations-1998/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investor-compensation-scheme-regulations-1998/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2169",
  "legislation_title": "The Investor Compensation Scheme Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/investor-compensation-scheme-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Investor Compensation Scheme Regulations 1998 and shall come into force on 26th September 1998.\n(2) In these Regulations:\n“investment firm” has the same meaning as in article 1 of the European Parliament and Council directive 97/9/EC of 3 March 1997 on investor compensation schemes.\n“relevant scheme” means a scheme for the payment of compensation to investors who suffer loss as a result of the inability of a participant in the scheme to meet its obligations arising out of investors' claims.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L 84, 26.3.97, p.22"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2169/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:19:54.678373+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."
}