{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/short-selling-regulations-2025/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/short-selling-regulations-2025/regulation-15.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/29",
  "legislation_title": "The Short Selling Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/short-selling-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "FCA power to prohibit or impose conditions on short sales",
  "text": "Subject to regulation 16(1), the FCA may prohibit persons from, or impose conditions relating to persons, entering into—\n(a) a short sale of a financial instrument, or\n(b) a transaction, other than a short sale of a financial instrument, where an effect of that transaction is to confer a financial advantage on the person in the event of a decrease in the price or value of that financial instrument.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 comes into force in accordance with reg. 2(2)(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/29/regulation/15",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:21:49.462967+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."
}