The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Transitional Provisions) (Partly Completed Procedures) Order 2001

Conditions making it appropriate to give a decision notice without a warning notice

66.—(1) Where a provision of this Chapter provides that the Authority may, if the expedited decision conditions are satisfied, give a person (“A”) a decision notice under a provision of the Act without having given A a warning notice, the expedited decision conditions referred to are that—

(a) the reasons stated in the decision notice given to A relate to or arise from the same failure, misconduct or other contravention which was the subject of the incomplete disciplinary proceedings to which A was subject immediately before commencement;

(b) A had, before commencement, been given a reasonable opportunity in the course of the incomplete disciplinary proceedings to make representations to the relevant SRO in respect of the failure, misconduct or other contravention which was the subject of the incomplete disciplinary proceedings; and

(c) the Authority has taken any representations so made by A into account in deciding whether to give A a decision notice and on the terms of that notice.

(2) The Financial Services and Markets Tribunal may take into account, in considering a decision notice referred to it, whether or not the expedited decision conditions were satisfied in relation to that decision notice; but a finding that they were not so satisfied does not affect the validity of the notice.