Authorisation under section 7 of the Financial Services ActU.K.
4.—(1) Any person who immediately before commencement was authorised under section 7 of the Financial Services Act is to be treated as having, at commencement, a Part IV permission to carry on any regulated activities which he was, immediately before commencement—
(a)by reason of that authorisation able to carry on in the United Kingdom without contravening section 3 of the Financial Services Act; and
(b)able to carry on there without contravening any rules of a recognised self-regulating organisation of the kind described in section 10(3) of that Act.
(2) The reference in paragraph (1) to the regulated activities which immediately before commencement the person was able to carry on “by reason of” his authorisation under section 7 of the Financial Services Act does not include a reference to any activity—
(a)as respects which he was then also an exempted person; or
(b)as respects which he was then also an authorised person by virtue of section 24 or 24A of that Act.
Commencement Information
I1Art. 4 in force at 1.12.2001, see art. 1(2)(b)