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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

Section 77: Discontinuance and suspension of listing

165.Occasionally circumstances arise which mean that normal dealings in listed securities cannot take place.  For example, a company may fail to comply with reporting requirements in the listing rules, so that investors and potential investors do not have sufficient information on which to make informed decisions about the company’s securities in order to deal in the securities.  Alternatively, a company may be in financial difficulties which it has not clarified or quantified.  This section gives the competent authority the power to suspend or discontinue the listing of a company’s securities in such circumstances.  During a suspension, trading in the securities cannot take place on a recognised investment exchange.  An issuer may refer a decision to discontinue or suspend listing to the Tribunal.

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