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2004 No. 3351

FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS

The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Transitional Provisions) (General Insurance Intermediaries) Order 2004

  Made 16th December 2004 
  Laid before Parliament 17th December 2004 
  Coming into force in accordance with article 1(2)

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 426 to 428 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000[1], hereby make the following Order:

Citation, commencement and interpretation
     1.  - (1) This Order may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Transitional Provisions) (General Insurance Intermediaries) Order 2004.

    (2) This Order comes into force - 

    (3) In this Order - 

Applications for Part IV permission etc
     2.  - (1) This article applies where before commencement the Authority has received - 

    (2) Where an application to which this article applies has not been finally decided before commencement, the applicant is to be treated as having, at commencement, an interim permission to carry on the activity to which the application relates until the permission lapses in accordance with paragraph (3).

    (3) Without prejudice to the exercise by the Authority of its powers under Part IV of the Act, an interim permission lapses on whichever is the earliest of the following dates - 

    (4) For the purposes of this article, an application has been finally decided - 

    (5) Where - 

the interim permission does not lapse but remains in force (as varied by the Authority under section 53) until it is cancelled by the Authority; and the Authority must cancel the interim permission once it is satisfied that it is no longer necessary to keep the interim permission in force.

Interim approval
    
3.  - (1) This article applies where before commencement - 

    (2) The person in respect of whom the application is made is to be treated, as from commencement, as having the Authority's approval ("an interim approval") for the purposes of section 59 of the Act in relation to the functions to which the application relates until the approval lapses in accordance with paragraph (3).

    (3) Without prejudice to the exercise by the Authority of its powers under Part V of the Act, an interim approval lapses on whichever is the earliest of the following dates - 

    (4) For the purposes of this article, an application has been finally decided - 

Application of the Authority's rules etc to persons with interim permission or interim approval
    
4.  - (1) The Authority may direct that any relevant provision which would otherwise apply to a person by virtue of his interim permission or interim approval is not to apply, or is to apply to him as modified in the way specified in the direction.

    (2) Where the Authority makes a rule, gives guidance or issues a statement or code which applies only to persons with an interim permission or an interim approval (or only to a class of such persons), sections 65, 155 and 157(3) of the Act do not apply to that rule, guidance, statement or code.

    (3) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a relevant provision is any provision made as a result of the exercise by the Authority of its legislative functions within the meaning of paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the Act.

    (4) Where the Authority takes action pursuant to this article before 20th January 2005, paragraph 5(2) of Schedule 1 to the Act does not (to the extent that it otherwise would) apply.

Application of the Act etc
    
5. The Schedule to this Order makes provision about the application of the Act and of certain provisions made under the Act in relation to persons with an interim permission or an interim approval.

Disapplication of section 213(3)(a) of the Act
    
6. Subsection (3)(a) of section 213 of the Act (the compensation scheme) does not apply to - 


Derek Twigg

Nick Ainger
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury

16th December 2004



SCHEDULE
Article 5


APPLICATION OF THE ACT TO PERSONS WITH AN INTERIM PERMISSION OR AN INTERIM APPROVAL


     1. Paragraphs 2 and 3 apply to every person with an interim permission.

     2. For the purposes of section 20, a person's interim permission is treated as having been given to him under Part IV of the Act.

     3. A person's interim permission is to be disregarded for the purposes of sections 38(2), 40(2), 42, 43 and 44(1), (4) and (5).

     4. Paragraphs 5(1), 6 to 8, 10 and 11 apply to a person who falls within section 31(1) only by virtue of having an interim permission.

     5.  - (1) A person with an interim permission is to be treated after commencement as an authorised person for the purposes of the Act (and of any provision made under the Act), unless otherwise expressly provided for by this Schedule.

    (2) A person with an interim approval is to be treated after commencement as an approved person for the purposes of the Act (and of any provision made under the Act), unless otherwise expressly provided for by this Schedule.

     6. For the purposes of sections 21(1) and 25(2)(a), a person with an interim permission is not to be treated as an authorised person for the purposes of communicating or approving the content of a communication except where the communication invites or induces a person to enter into (or offer to enter into) an agreement the making or performance of which constitutes a controlled activity which corresponds to a regulated activity which is covered by his interim permission.

     7. A person with an interim permission may still be an appointed representative within the meaning of section 39(2) and hence may be treated as exempt from the general prohibition as a result of section 39(1) for the purposes of section 42(3)(a)).

     8. Section 347(1)(a) is disapplied, in relation to persons with an interim permission, until 14th July 2005.

     9. Section 347(1)(h) is disapplied, in relation to persons with an interim approval, until 14th July 2005.

     10.  - (1) For the purposes of article 22 of the Regulated Activities Order, a person with an interim permission which does not cover an activity of the kind specified by article 21 of that Order - 

    (2) For the purposes of article 29 of the Regulated Activities Order, a person with an interim permission which does not cover an activity of the kind specified by article 25 of that Order - 

     11. For the purposes of article 72(1)(a), (2)(a), (3) or (4)(a) of the Regulated Activities Order, a person with an interim permission is not to be treated as an authorised person.



EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)


Article 2 of this Order confers an interim permission on certain applicants who have applied to the Financial Services Authority ("the Authority") for permission under Part IV of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (c. 8) ("the Act") to carry on certain general insurance mediation activities and whose application is pending on the date (14th January 2005) when those activities become (by reason of S.I. 2003/1476) regulated activities within the meaning of section 22 of the Act.

Article 3 confers interim approval, in similar terms to those in article 2, on people who are working for a person who benefits from an interim permission and who would need approval under Part V of the Act.

Article 4 allows the Authority to modify, amongst other things, its rules in their application to persons with an interim permission or an interim approval.

Article 5 and the Schedule provide for the application of provisions in, or made under, the Act to persons with an interim permission or an interim approval, indicating where such provisions are to be treated as not including such persons.

Article 6 disapplies, in relation to persons with an interim permission and their appointed representatives, the Authority's duty to have in place compensation arrangements under the financial services compensation scheme.


Notes:

[1] 2000 c. 8.back

[2] S.I. 2003/1476.back

[3] S.I. 2001/544. Article 39A was inserted by S.I. 2003/1476, art. 7.back



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  © Crown copyright 2004

Prepared 14 January 2005


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