Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

Valid from 08/04/2010

[F1 8 (1) The consumer financial education body must in respect of each of its financial years prepare an annual plan which has been approved by the Authority. U.K.

(2) The plan must be prepared—

(a) in the case of the body's first financial year, as soon as reasonably practicable after the body is established; and

(b) in the case of each subsequent financial year, before the start of the financial year.

(3) The consumer financial education body may, with the approval of the Authority, vary the plan in respect of a financial year at any time after its preparation.

(4) An annual plan in respect of a financial year must set out—

(a) the objectives of the consumer financial education body for the year;

(b) how the extent to which each of those objectives is met is to be determined;

(c) the relative priorities of each of those objectives; and

(d) how its resources are to be allocated among the activities to be carried on in connection with the discharge of the consumer financial education function.

(5) In sub-paragraph (4) references to objectives for a financial year include objectives for a longer period that includes that year.

(6) Before preparing or varying an annual plan, the consumer financial education body must consult—

(a) the Treasury;

(b) the Secretary of State;

(c) the Office of Fair Trading;

(d) the Practitioner Panel;

(e) the Consumer Panel; and

(f) such other persons (if any) as the body considers appropriate.

(7) The consumer financial education body must publish each annual plan, and each variation of an annual plan, in the way it considers appropriate.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1A inserted (8.4.2010 for certain purposes and 1.4.2011 otherwise) by Financial Services Act 2010 (c. 28), ss. 2(6), 26(1)(b)(k), Sch. 1 para. 1 (with Sch. 1 para. 2); S.I. 2010/2480, art. 3