Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

[F1[F284Matters which may be dealt with by prospectus rulesU.K.

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(1)Prospectus rules may make provision as to—

(a)the required form and content of a prospectus F3...;

(b)the cases in which a summary need not be included in a prospectus;

(c)the languages which may be used in a prospectus F4...;

(d)the determination of the persons responsible for a prospectus;

(e)the manner in which applications to the [F5FCA] for the approval of a prospectus are to be made.

[F6(1A)In subsection (1) “prospectus” includes any part of a prospectus, and in particular includes a summary and a supplement.]

(2)Prospectus rules may also make provision as to—

(a)the period of validity of a prospectus;

(b)the disclosure of the maximum price or of the criteria or conditions according to which the final offer price is to be determined, if that information is not contained in a prospectus;

(c)the disclosure of the amount of the transferable securities which are to be offered to the public or of the criteria or conditions according to which that amount is to be determined, if that information is not contained in a prospectus;

(d)the required form and content of other summary documents (including the languages which may be used in such a document);

(e)the ways in which a prospectus that has been approved by the [F5FCA] may be made available to the public;

(f)the disclosure, publication or other communication of such information as the [F5FCA] may reasonably stipulate;

(g)the principles to be observed in relation to advertisements in connection with an offer of transferable securities to the public or admission of transferable securities to trading on a regulated market and the enforcement of those principles;

(h)the suspension of trading in transferable securities where continued trading would be detrimental to the interests of investors;

[F7(i)the exercise of entitlements under Article 4 of the prospectus regulation F8....]

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(4)Prospectus rules may make provision for the purpose of dealing with matters arising out of or related to any provision of the prospectus [F10regulation].

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(7)Nothing in this section affects the [F5FCA's] general power to make prospectus rules.]]

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 84-87R and cross-headings substituted for ss. 84-87 (1.7.2005) by The Prospectus Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/1433), reg. 2(1), Sch. 1 para. 5

F5Words in ss. 73A-84 substituted (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. 16(2)(3)(a), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/113, art. 2(1)(c), Sch. Pt. 3; S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch.

F9S. 84(3) omitted (1.7.2012) by virtue of The Prospectus Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/1538), regs. 1(1), 3(1)