The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Transitional Provisions and Savings) (Civil Remedies, Discipline, Criminal Offences etc.) Order 2001

Public statements in respect of pre-commencement contraventions of the rules of self-regulating organisations

7.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies if the Authority considers that—

(a) an authorised person (within the meaning of the Act) was, immediately before commencement, a member of a recognised self-regulating organisation or a recognised self-regulating organisation for friendly societies;

(b) that person contravened a requirement imposed by a rule of that organisation which regulated the carrying on by him of investment business; and

(c) that organisation had, immediately before commencement, a power to make a statement corresponding to the power of the Authority under section 205 (public censure) in relation to that contravention but had not exercised that power in relation to that contravention.

(2) The Authority may exercise the power conferred by section 205 as if the contravention of that requirement were a contravention of a requirement imposed by or under the Act.