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SCHEDULE 15U.K.Transparency obligations and related matters: minor and consequential amendments

Part 1U.K.Amendments of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

8U.K.In section 97(1) (appointment by the competent authority of persons to carry out investigations), for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—

(a)there may have been a contravention of—

(i)a provision of this Part or of Part 6 rules, or

(ii)a provision otherwise made in accordance with the prospectus directive or the transparency obligations directive;

(b)a person who was at the material time a director of a person mentioned in section 91(1), (1ZA)(a), (1A) or (1B) has been knowingly concerned in a contravention by that person of—

(i)a provision of this Part or of Part 6 rules, or

(ii)a provision otherwise made in accordance with the prospectus directive or the transparency obligations directive;.