2000 No. 968

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Official Listing of Securities (Change of Competent Authority) Regulations 2000
Made
4th April 2000
Coming into force
for the purposes of regulation 8
5th April 2000
for all other purposes
1st May 2000
Whereas the Treasury are a government department designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to matters relating to listing of securities on a stock exchange and information concerning listed securities;
And whereas a draft of these Regulations has been approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament pursuant to section 2(2) of, and paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 2 to, that Act;
Now therefore the Treasury in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2(2) of that Act and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf hereby make the following Regulations:—
S.I. 1981/206 designates the Secretary of State; the Treasury is designated in place of the Secretary of State by virtue of article 9(a) of the Transfer of Functions (Financial Services) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/1315).
1972 c. 68. By virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51), regulations may be made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act for the purposes of implementing rights, powers, liabilities, obligations and restrictions of the United Kingdom created or arising by or under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) as adjusted by the Protocol signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 (Cm 2183).
Regulations: power to modify conferred (11.7.2023) by Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29), ss. 3, 86(3), Sch. 1 Pt. 2; S.I. 2023/779, reg. 2(d)