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Statutory Instruments
2018 No. 204
Financial Services And Markets
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Benchmarks) (Amendment) Regulations 2018
Made
20th February 2018
Laid before Parliament
21st February 2018
Coming into force
26th February 2018
The Treasury are designated( 1 ) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 2 ) in relation to financial services.
The Treasury make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972.
Citation and commencement
1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Benchmarks) (Amendment) Regulations 2018.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 26th February 2018.
Amendment of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Benchmarks) Regulations 2018
2.Regulation 61(1) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Benchmarks) Regulations 2018( 3 ) (existing administrators as at 30th June 2016: transitional provision) is amended by omitting “in relation to that benchmark or those benchmarks”.
Andrew Stephenson
Paul Maynard
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
20th February 2018
1972 c. 68 ; section 2(2) was amended by section 27 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and by section 3 of, and the Schedule to, the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7) . By virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c.51) regulations may be made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act to implement obligations of the United Kingdom created or arising by or under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) and the Protocol adjusting the Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 (Cm 2183).