Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

[F164BRules of conduct: responsibilities of relevant authorised personsU.K.

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(1)This section applies where a regulator makes rules under section 64A (“conduct rules”).

(2)Every relevant authorised person must—

(a)notify all relevant persons of the conduct rules that apply in relation to them, and

(b)take all reasonable steps to secure that those persons understand how those rules apply in relation to them.

(3)The steps which a relevant authorised person must take to comply with subsection (2)(b) include, in particular, the provision of suitable training.

(4)In this section “relevant person”, in relation to an authorised person, means—

(a)any person in relation to whom an approval is given under section 59 on the application of the authorised person, F2...

(b)any employee of the authorised person [F3, and

(c)any person who is a director of the authorised person].

F4(5). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(6)In this section “employee”, in relation to an authorised person, has the same meaning as in section 64A.

[F5(6A)In this section “director”, in relation to an authorised person, has the same meaning as in section 64A.]

(7)For the meaning of “relevant authorised person”, see section 71A.]

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 64A, 64B and cross-heading inserted (25.7.2014 for specified purposes, 7.3.2016 for specified purposes) by Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c. 33), ss. 30(3), 148(5); S.I. 2014/1819, art. 2(2)(c); S.I. 2015/490, art. 2(1)(d) (as inserted by S.I. 2015/2055, art. 2(4) and with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2015/492 (as amended by S.I. 2015/1660))