F1PART 9ARules and Guidance
CHAPTER 1Rule-making powers
General rule-making powers of the FCA and the PRA
C7C5C3C4C6C1C10C11137AThe FCA's general rules
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The FCA may make such rules applying to authorised persons—
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with respect to the carrying on by them of regulated activities, or
b
with respect to the carrying on by them of activities which are not regulated activities,
as appear to the FCA to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of advancing one or more of its operational objectives.
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Rules made under this section are referred to in this Act as the FCA's general rules.
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The FCA's general rules may make provision applying to authorised persons even though there is no relationship between the authorised persons to whom the rules will apply and the persons whose interests will be protected by the rules.
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The FCA's general rules may contain requirements which take into account, in the case of an authorised person who is a member of a group, any activity of another member of the group.
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The FCA's general rules may not—
a
make provision prohibiting an EEA firm from carrying on, or holding itself out as carrying on, any activity which it has permission conferred by Part 2 of Schedule 3 to carry on in the United Kingdom;
b
make provision, as respects an EEA firm, about any matter for which responsibility is, under any of the single market directives or the emission allowance auctioning regulation, reserved to the firm's home state regulator.
Pt. 9A substituted for ss. 138-164 (24.1.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2013 in so far as not already in force) by Financial Services Act 2012 (c. 21), ss. 24(1), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/113, art. 2(1)(c), Sch. Pt. 3; S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch.