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SCHEDULE 1AMENDMENTS TO PART 6 OF THE 2000 ACT

4.  For subsections (1) and (2) of section 91 (penalties for breach of listing rules), substitute—

(1) If the competent authority considers that–

(a)in relation to a listed security, an issuer or applicant for listing; or

(b)in relation to a financial instrument–

(i)an issuer who has requested or approved the admission of the instrument to trading on a regulated market,

(ii)a person discharging managerial responsibilities within such an issuer, or

(iii)a person connected to such a person discharging managerial responsibilities, has contravened any provision of the Part 6 rules, it may impose on him a penalty of such amount as it considers appropriate.

(2) If, in the case of a contravention by an applicant or an issuer referred to in subsection (1)(a) or (1)(b)(i), the competent authority considers that a person who was at the material time a director of that applicant or issuer was knowingly concerned in the contravention, it may impose upon him a penalty of such amount as it considers appropriate..