Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 Explanatory Notes

Section 202: Contravention of a requirement imposed under this Part

407.This section makes clear that a contravention of a requirement imposed under this Part does not constitute an offence or result in any transaction being void or unenforceable.  It also confers on the Treasury a power to prescribe in regulations the circumstances in which a person may have a right of action as a result of a breach of a requirement imposed under this Part. Otherwise no such right of action will result from a contravention.

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