Amendments to section 199 of the ActU.K.
4. In section 199 (additional procedure for EEA firms in certain cases)—
(a)for subsection (2)(b) substitute—
“(b)as respects its contravention, the single market directive in question provides that a procedure of the kind set out in the following provisions of this section (so far as they are relevant in the firm’s case) is to apply.”;
(b)after subsection (3) insert—
“(3A) If the firm falls within paragraph 5(da) of Schedule 3, the Authority must at the same time as it gives notice to the firm under subsection (3) refer its findings to the firm’s home state regulator.
(3B) Subsections (4) to (8) apply to an incoming EEA firm other than a firm falling within paragraph 5(da) of Schedule 3.”;
(c)in subsection (5) after “its power of intervention” insert “before informing the firm’s home state regulator and ”;
(d)after subsection (8) insert—
“(9) In the case of a firm falling within paragraph 5(da) of Schedule 3, the Authority may not exercise its power of intervention before informing the firm’s home state regulator and unless satisfied—
(a)that the firm’s home state regulator has failed or refused to take all appropriate measures for the purpose of ensuring that the firm remedies the situation which gave rise to the notice under subsection (3); or
(b)that the measures taken by the home state regulator have proved inadequate for that purpose.”.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 4 in force at 10.12.2007, see reg. 1(1)