
1 
This Order may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Prescribed Markets and Qualifying Investments) Order 2001.
2 
This Order comes into force on the day on which section 123 of the Act (power to impose penalties in cases of market abuse) comes into force.
3 
In this Order—
 “the Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; and
 “UK recognised investment exchange” means a body corporate or unincorporated association in respect of which there is in effect a recognition order made under section 290(1)(a) of the Act (recognition orders in respect of investment exchanges other than overseas investment exchanges).
4 
There are prescribed, as markets to which section 118 of the Act applies, all markets which are established under the rules of a UK recognised investment exchange.
5 
There are prescribed, as qualifying investments in relation to the markets prescribed by article 4, all investments of a kind specified for the purposes of section 22 of the Act.
David Clelland
Clive Betts
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
15th March 2001