PART 2Repeal of passport rights, etc., under Part 3 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000

Repeal of passport rights, etc.I12

1

Part 3 of the 2000 Act (authorisation and exemption) is amended as follows.

2

Omit section 31(1)(b) (authorised persons: EEA firms).

3

Omit section 31(1)(c) (authorised persons: Treaty firms).

4

Omit section 37 (exercise of EEA rights by UK firms).

5

In Schedule 3 (EEA passport rights), omit—

a

Part 2 (exercise of passport rights by EEA firms);

b

Part 3 (exercise of passport rights by UK firms).

6

Omit Schedule 4 (Treaty rights).

Consequential amendmentsI33

The Schedule makes consequential amendments—

a

in Part 1, to the 2000 Act;

b

in Parts 2 and 3, to other enactments.

Saving provision: taxI24

For the purposes of an enactment relating to taxation—

a

the provision made by these Regulations is to be treated as not having been made, and

b

where, by virtue of these Regulations, a person ceases to be a person of a particular description, the person is to be treated as continuing to be a person of that description.