Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

Legal statusU.K.

1(1)If the regulated activity concerned is the effecting or carrying out of contracts of insurance the authorised person must be a body corporate [F1(other than a limited liability partnership)], a registered friendly society or a member of Lloyd’s.U.K.

(2)If the person concerned appears to the Authority to be seeking to carry on, or to be carrying on, a regulated activity constituting accepting deposits [F2or issuing electronic money] , it must be—

(a)a body corporate; or

(b)a partnership.