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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

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13(1)The establishment conditions are that—

(a)the Authority has received notice (“a consent notice”) from the firm’s home state regulator that it has given the firm consent to establish a branch in the United Kingdom;

(b)the consent notice—

(i)is given in accordance with the relevant single market directive;

(ii)identifies the activities to which consent relates; and

(iii)includes such other information as may be prescribed; and

(c)the firm has been informed of the applicable provisions or two months have elapsed beginning with the date when the Authority received the consent notice.

(2)If the Authority has received a consent notice, it must—

(a)prepare for the firm’s supervision;

(b)notify the firm of the applicable provisions (if any); and

(c)if the firm falls within paragraph 5(d), notify its home state regulator of the applicable provisions (if any).

(3)A notice under sub-paragraph (2)(b) or (c) must be given before the end of the period of two months beginning with the day on which the Authority received the consent notice.

(4)For the purposes of this paragraph—

  • “applicable provisions” means the host state rules with which the firm is required to comply when carrying on a permitted activity through a branch in the United Kingdom;

  • “host state rules” means rules—

    (a)

    made in accordance with the relevant single market directive; and

    (b)

    which are the responsibility of the United Kingdom (both as to implementation and as to supervision of compliance) in accordance with that directive; and

  • “permitted activity” means an activity identified in the consent notice.

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