Explanatory Notes

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

2000 CHAPTER 8

14 June 2000

Commentary on Sections

Part Xxviii: Miscellaneous

Section 413: Protected items

731.This section provides that no power under the Act can be used to require any person to produce, disclose or permit the inspection of “protected items”. These are defined in terms which are materially identical to the definition of items subject to legal professional privilege in section 10 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984.