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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

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The competent authority

72The competent authority

(1)On the coming into force of this section, the functions conferred on the competent authority by this Part are to be exercised by the Authority.

(2)Schedule 7 modifies this Act in its application to the Authority when it acts as the competent authority.

(3)But provision is made by Schedule 8 allowing some or all of those functions to be transferred by the Treasury so as to be exercisable by another person.

73General duty of the competent authority

(1)In discharging its general functions the competent authority must have regard to—

(a)the need to use its resources in the most efficient and economic way;

(b)the principle that a burden or restriction which is imposed on a person should be proportionate to the benefits, considered in general terms, which are expected to arise from the imposition of that burden or restriction;

(c)the desirability of facilitating innovation in respect of listed securities;

(d)the international character of capital markets and the desirability of maintaining the competitive position of the United Kingdom;

(e)the need to minimise the adverse effects on competition of anything done in the discharge of those functions;

(f)the desirability of facilitating competition in relation to listed securities.

(2)The competent authority’s general functions are—

(a)its function of making rules under this Part (considered as a whole);

(b)its functions in relation to the giving of general guidance in relation to this Part (considered as a whole);

(c)its function of determining the general policy and principles by reference to which it performs particular functions under this Part.

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