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The Short Selling Regulations 2025

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. Part 1 General Provisions

    1. 1.Citation and extent

    2. 2.Commencement

    3. 3.Interpretation

  3. Part 2 Designated Activities, FCA Designated Activity Rule-Making Powers and Obligations of the FCA

    1. 4.Designated activities: short selling of admitted shares and related transactions

    2. 5.FCA rules relating to short selling of admitted shares and related transactions

    3. 6.FCA rules requiring notification of a significant net short position in the issued share capital of a company

    4. 7.Publication by the FCA of aggregate net short positions

    5. 8.FCA power to provide for waiver or exemption from rules and obligation to publish list of shares in relation to which rules apply

    6. 9.FCA power to exempt market making activities and stabilisation

    7. 10.Power of FCA to give directions in relation to activities specified in regulation 4

  4. Part 3 Overseas trading venue short selling regime

    1. 11.Overseas trading venue short selling regime

    2. 12.Restatement of the Short Selling Regulation Equivalence Directions 2020

  5. Part 4 FCA Powers in Exceptional Circumstances

    1. 13.FCA power to require notifications

    2. 14.FCA power to require notification of lending fees

    3. 15.FCA power to prohibit or impose conditions on short sales

    4. 16.Conditions applying to exercise of FCA powers in exceptional circumstances

    5. 17.FCA power to restrict short selling following significant price fall

    6. 18.Notice of FCA decision to exercise power in exceptional circumstances

    7. 19.FCA review of power exercised in exceptional circumstances

    8. 20.Statement of policy

    9. 21.Power of FCA to give directions in relation to Part 4

  6. Part 5 Buy-in procedures

    1. 22.Buy-in procedures

    2. 23.Power of FCA to give directions in relation to regulation 22

  7. Part 6 Supervision and enforcement

    1. 24.Application of FSMA 2000 for the purposes of Parts 4 and 5

    2. 25.Power to require information from any person

    3. 26.Power in relation to persons knowingly concerned in a contravention of these Regulations

  8. Part 7 Saving provisions

    1. 27.Saving of FCA powers in Part 8A FSMA 2000

    2. 28.Saving provision in relation to Article 9(4) of Regulation (EU) No236/2012

    3. 29.Saving provision in relation to Article 26(3) of Regulation (EU) No600/2014

  9. Part 8 Consequential amendments

    1. 30.Consequential amendments

  10. Signature

  11. Schedules

    1. Schedule 1

      Application of FSMA 2000

      1. Part 1 Application of FSMA 2000 for the purposes of Parts 4 and 5

        1. 1.The provisions of FSMA 2000 mentioned in the Table in...

        2. 2.The general modifications are— (a) references to a regulator are...

        3. 3.This Table sets out the applied provisions of FSMA 2000...

      2. Part 2 Application of FSMA 2000 for the purposes of regulation 25

        1. 4.The provisions of FSMA 2000 mentioned in the Table in...

        2. 5.The general modifications are— (a) references to a regulator are...

        3. 6.This Table sets out the applied provisions of FSMA 2000...

      3. Part 3 Application of FSMA 2000 for the purposes of regulation 26

        1. 7.The provisions of FSMA 2000 mentioned in the Table in...

        2. 8.The general modifications are— (a) references to a regulator are...

        3. 9.This Table sets out the applied provisions of FSMA 2000...

    2. Schedule 2

      Consequential amendments

      1. Part 1 Amendment of primary legislation

        1. 1.Amendment of FSMA 2000

        2. 2.Amendment of the Financial Services Act 2010

        3. 3.Amendment of the Financial Services Act 2012

      2. Part 2 Amendment of secondary legislation

        1. 4.Amendment of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) Regulations 2001

        2. 5.Amendment of the Financial Services and Markets Act (Qualifying Provisions) Order 2013

        3. 6.Amendment of the Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013

        4. 7.Amendment of the Financial Regulator’s Powers (Technical Standards etc.) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

        5. 8.Amendment of the Equivalence Determinations for Financial Services and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

        6. 9.Amendment of the Gibraltar (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

        7. 10.Amendment of the Equivalence Determinations for Financial Services (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

  12. Explanatory Note

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