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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

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Changes over time for: Cross Heading: Annual plan

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Version Superseded: 01/04/2013

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Point in time view as at 24/01/2013.

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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, Cross Heading: Annual plan is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 10 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

[F1Annual planU.K.

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. 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

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 [F2FCA].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 [F2FCA], 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;

[F3(da)the Smaller Business 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

F2Word in Sch. 1A para. 8 substituted (24.1.2013 for specified purposes) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), s. 122(3), Sch. 15 para. 9(a) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/113, art. 2(1)(c), Sch. Pt. 3

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