The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Market Abuse) Regulations 2008
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2008/1439 |
| Year | 2008 |
2008 No. 1439
Financial Services And Markets
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Market Abuse) Regulations 2008
Made 5th June 2008
Laid before Parliament 6th June 2008
Coming into force 30th June 2008
The Treasury are a government department designated1for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722in relation to insider dealing and market manipulation;
In exercise of the powers conferred upon them by section 2(2) of that Act, the Treasury hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Market Abuse) Regulations 2008.
(2) These regulations shall come into force on 30th June 2008.
Interpretation
2. In these Regulations “the 2000 Act” means the Financial Services and Markets Act 20003.
Amendment of Part 8 of the 2000 Act
3.—(1) The 2000 Act is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (9) of section 118 (market abuse)4, for “30 June 2008” substitute “31 December 2009”.
(3) In subsection (6) of section 118A (supplementary provision about certain behaviour)5, for “30 June 2008” substitute “31 December 2009”.
Frank Roy
Steve McCabe
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
5th June 2008
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend sections 118 and 118A of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (c.8)(“the 2000 Act”) which were substituted, together with sections 118B and 118C, for the original section 118 by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Market Abuse) Regulations 2005, SI 2005/381as from 1 July 2005. Such Regulations implemented, in part, Directive 2003/6/ECof the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2003 on insider dealing and market manipulation6(“the Market Abuse Directive”).
Subsections 118(4), 118(8), 118A(2) and 118A(3) of the 2000 Act retain the definitions of market abuse which are broader than those in Articles 1 to 5 of the Market Abuse Directive and were already in the original section 118. Section 118(9) provides that these provisions will cease to have effect on 30 June 2008; section 118A(6) does the same for the related provisions in section 118A.
Regulations 3(2) and 3(3) amend sections 118(9) and 118A(6) of the 2000 Act to change the date on which the provisions affected by those sections will cease to...
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