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Financial Services and Markets Act 2000: recent developments

12 July 2002

Consultation and Legislation: Bulletin 28

Bulletin number 28 from HM Treasury 

This is the twenty-eighth bulletin covering developments on the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA).

Implementation of the E-Commerce Directive

Two of the statutory instruments implementing the E-Commerce Directive in Financial Services have now been made and will come into force on 21 August. These are:

They are available in the E-Commerce Directive section of this site, together with a response to the public consultations of December 2001 and March 2002.

Two further statutory instruments will be made at a later date, namely:

Laying of secondary legislation under FSMA

SI 2002 No. 1409 The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments)(Taxes) Order 2002.

Mortgages

The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Commencement of Mortgage Regulation) (Amendment) Order 2002 will be made shortly. It will repeal the date specified for the commencement of mortgage regulation in earlier statutory instruments, and provide instead that regulation will commence on a date to be announced in the London, Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.

Availability

These documents are available in the Financial Services and Markets legislation section of this site.

Future bulletins

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Financial Services Regulation Team, HM Treasury, 2nd Floor, Allington Towers, 19 Allington Street, London SW1E 5EB

Telephone: 020 7270 1634
e-mail: deirdre.barrie@hm-treasury.gov.uk

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