PART 4A

Permission to carry on regulated activities

Application for permission

Firms based outside the United Kingdom
55D
1
This section applies in relation to a person (“the
non-UK
firm”)—
a
who is a body incorporated in, or formed under the law of, or is an individual who is a national of, any country or territory outside the
United Kingdom
, and
b
who is carrying on a regulated activity in any country or territory outside the United Kingdom in accordance with the law of that country or territory (“the overseas state”).
2
In determining whether the
non-UK
firm is satisfying or will satisfy, and continue to satisfy, any one or more of the threshold conditions for which a
UK
regulator is responsible, the
UK
regulator may have regard to any opinion notified to it by a regulatory authority in the overseas state (“the overseas regulator”) which relates to the
non-UK
firm and appears to the
UK
regulator to be relevant to compliance with those conditions.
3
In considering how much weight (if any) to attach to the opinion, the
UK
regulator must have regard to the nature and scope of the supervision exercised in relation to the
non-UK
firm by the overseas regulator.
4
In this section “
UK
regulator
” means the FCA or the PRA.
Pt. 4A excluded by S.I. 1998/1870, reg. 14(2)(c) (as substituted (1.4.2013) by The Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/472), Sch. 2 para. 22(5)(b))
Words in s. 55D(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/632), regs. 1(3), 15(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Pt. 4A modified (26.7.2013 for specified purposes, 1.4.2014 in so far as not already in force) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (Amendment) (No.2) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/1881), arts. 1(2)(6), 31(6)
Words in s. 55D heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/632), regs. 1(3), 15(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Pt. 4A substituted for ss. 40-55 (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. 11(2), 122(3) (with Sch. 20); S.I. 2013/113, art. 2(1)(b)(c), Sch. Pts. 2, 3; S.I. 2013/423, art. 3, Sch.
Pt. 4A modified by S.I. 2018/1149, reg. 43 (as inserted (1.3.2019) by The Financial Services Contracts (Transitional and Saving Provision) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/405), regs. 1(2), 2)
Word in s. 55D substituted (31.12.2020) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/632), regs. 1(3), 15(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
Pt. 4A modified (7.11.2018) by The EEA Passport Rights (Amendment, etc., and Transitional Provisions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1149), regs. 1(2), 5-7 (with regs. 4, 8-19) (as amended (31.1.2020 immediately before exit day) by The Financial Services (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/56), regs. 1, 6(2))