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# The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Exemptions from Financial Promotion General Requirement) Regulations 2023

## Title and introductory text {#prelims}

2023 No. 966
Financial Services And Markets
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Exemptions from Financial Promotion General Requirement) Regulations 2023
Made
5th September 2023
Laid before Parliament
6th September 2023
Coming into force
27th September 2023
The Treasury make these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 55NB(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.

## 1 Citation and commencement {#regulation-1}

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Exemptions from Financial Promotion General Requirement) Regulations 2023.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 27th September 2023.
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

## 2 Interpretation {#regulation-2}

In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
“appointed representative” means a person referred to in section 39(2)(a) of the Act.

## 3 Exemptions from the general requirement relating to financial promotion approval {#regulation-3}

Section 55NA(1) (general requirement relating to financial promotion approval) of the Act does not apply to the giving of approval of the content of a communication by an authorised person (“A”) ... where the content of the communication is prepared by—
(a) A,
(b) an unauthorised person, where both A and that unauthorised person are members of the same group, or
(c) an unauthorised person, where that unauthorised person is an appointed representative of A, in relation to any regulated activity comprised in the carrying on of the business for which A, as that unauthorised person’s principal, has accepted responsibility.