{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/payment-services-regulations-2017/regulation-139",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/payment-services-regulations-2017/regulation-139.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/752",
  "legislation_title": "The Payment Services Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/payment-services-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/139",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "139",
  "heading": "False claims to be a payment service provider or exempt",
  "text": "(1) A person who does not fall within any of sub-paragraphs (a) to (f) of regulation 138(1) may not—\n(a) describe themselves (in whatever terms) as a person falling within any of those sub-paragraphs; or\n(b) behave, or otherwise hold themselves out, in a manner which indicates (or which is reasonably likely to be understood as indicating) that they are such a person.\n(2) A person who contravenes paragraph (1) is guilty of an offence and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine, which in Scotland or Northern Ireland may not exceed level 5 on the standard scale, or both.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/752/regulation/139",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:09:36.065342+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."
}