Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

83Registration of listing particulars

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(1)On or before the date on which listing particulars are published as required by listing rules, a copy of the particulars must be delivered for registration to the registrar of companies.

(2)A statement that a copy has been delivered to the registrar must be included in the listing particulars when they are published.

(3)If there has been a failure to comply with subsection (1) in relation to listing particulars which have been published—

(a)the issuer of the securities in question, and

(b)any person who is a party to the publication and aware of the failure,

is guilty of an offence.

(4)A person guilty of an offence under subsection (3) is liable—

(a)on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;

(b)on conviction on indictment, to a fine.

(5)“Listing particulars” includes supplementary listing particulars.

(6)“The registrar of companies” means—

(a)if the securities are, or are to be, issued by a company incorporated in Great Britain whose registered office is in England and Wales, the registrar of companies in England and Wales;

(b)if the securities are, or are to be, issued by a company incorporated in Great Britain whose registered office is in Scotland, the registrar of companies in Scotland;

(c)if the securities are, or are to be, issued by a company incorporated in Northern Ireland, the registrar of companies for Northern Ireland; and

(d)in any other case, any of those registrars.