Section 240: Restriction on approval of promotion.

Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 · 2000 c. 8View on legislation.gov.uk

Part XVII: Collective Investment Schemes — Chapter II: Restrictions on Promotion

An authorised person may not approve for the purposes of section 21 the content of a communication relating to a collective investment scheme if he would be prohibited by section 238(1) from effecting the communication himself or from causing it to be communicated.

For the purposes of determining in any case whether there has been a contravention of section 21(1), an approval given in contravention of subsection (1) is to be regarded as not having been given.

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