The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exclusions and Exceptions) (Scotland) Order 2012

3.  Any decision of the competent authority for listing—

(a) to refuse an application for listing under Part VI of the 2000 Act or to discontinue or suspend the listing of any securities under section 77 of that Act(1);

(b) to refuse to grant a person’s application for approval as a sponsor under section 88(2) of the 2000 Act or to cancel such approval; or

(c) to dismiss, fail to promote or exclude a person from being a key worker of the competent authority for listing,

by reason of, or partly by reason of, a spent conviction of an individual, or of any circumstances ancillary to such a conviction or of a failure (whether or not by that individual) to disclose such a conviction or any such circumstances.

(1)

Section 77 was amended by the Regulatory Reform (Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1973), article 5.

(2)

Section 88 was amended by the Regulatory Reform (Financial Services and Markets Act 2000) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/1973), article 9.