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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Exemptions from Financial Promotion General Requirement) Regulations 2023.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 27th September 2023.
(3) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
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In these Regulations—
 “the Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
 “appointed representative” means a person referred to in section 39(2)(a) of the Act.
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Section 55NA(1) (general requirement relating to financial promotion approval) of the Act does not apply to the giving of approval of the content of a communication by an authorised person (“A”) ... where the content of the communication is prepared by—
(a) A,
(b) an unauthorised person, where both A and  that unauthorised person  are members of the same group, or
(c) an unauthorised person, where  that unauthorised person  is an appointed representative of A, in relation to any regulated activity comprised in the carrying on of the business for which A, as  that unauthorised person’s  principal, has accepted responsibility.
Steve Double
Stuart Anderson
Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury
5th September 2023