The Oversight of Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Supervision Regulations 2017

Determination of applications U.K.

5.—(1) Before the end of the period of 6 months beginning with the date on which the FCA receives the completed application, the FCA must make a recommendation to the Treasury as to whether the applicant should be added to Schedule 1 to the MLR.

(2) The FCA may consider an incomplete application if, in the FCA's opinion, it is appropriate to do so, but must in any event make a recommendation to the Treasury concerning such an application within 12 months beginning with the date on which it receives the incomplete application.

(3) The Treasury must take the FCA's recommendation into account when deciding whether to make regulations which add the applicant to Schedule 1 to the MLR.