The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001

Disclosure of information by inspectors

24.  For subsection (3) of section 451A of the 1985 Act (disclosure of information by inspectors)(1) substitute—

“(3) Information to which this section applies may also be disclosed by an inspector appointed under this Part to—

(a) another inspector appointed under this Part;

(b) a person appointed under—

(i) section 167 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (general investigations),

(ii) section 168 of that Act (investigations in particular cases),

(iii) section 169(1)(b) of that Act (investigation in support of overseas regulator),

(iv) section 284 of that Act (investigations into affairs of certain collective investment schemes), or

(v) regulations made as a result of section 262(2)(k) of that Act (investigations into open-ended investment companies),

to conduct an investigation; or

(c) a person authorised to exercise powers under—

(i) section 447 of this Act; or

(ii) section 84 of the Companies Act 1989 (exercise of powers to assist overseas regulatory authority).”.

(1)

Inserted by the Financial Services Act 1986 (c. 60), Schedule 13, paragraph 10; substituted by the Companies Act 1989 (c. 40), section 68 and amended by S.I. 1994/1696, Schedule 8, paragraph 9.