Part XU.K. General and Supplementary

InterpretationU.K.

[F1119AB.Communications by means of a websiteU.K.

(1)For the purposes of this Act, a person (A), other than the [F2FCA and the PRA], makes a document or information available on a website to another person (B) if each of the following conditions is satisfied.

(2)The first condition is that B—

(a)has agreed (generally or specifically) that A may make the document or information available to B in that manner, and

(b)has not revoked that agreement.

(3)The second condition is that A has notified B of—

(a)the presence of the document or information on the website,

(b)the address of the website,

(c)the place on the website where the document or information may be accessed, and

(d)how to access the document or information.

(4)The third condition is that the document or information is present on the website for the whole of the period—

(a)beginning when A sends B the notification referred to in subsection (3) or, if later, when the document or information first appears on the website, and

(b)ending with the end date specified for the purposes of this paragraph in the provision of, or made under, this Act that requires or permits A to send the document to B.

(5)If the document or information is absent from the website for part of the period referred to in subsection (4), the absence is to be disregarded if it is wholly attributable to circumstances that it would not be reasonable to have expected A to prevent or avoid.

(6)A is not to be regarded as making a document available on a website for the purposes of this section if the website is the [F3the FCA’s or the PRA’s] website (an electronic copy of the document having been placed there in reliance on section 104(1A)(b)).]

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