(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Service of Notices) Regulations 2001, and come into force on the day on which section 1 of the Act comes into force.
(2) In these Regulations -
"the Act" means the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000;
"appropriate person" means - (a) an individual to whom a relevant document may be given, in accordance with regulation 3(1), in order to give that document to a person who is not an individual, or (b) in the case of a relevant document given to an appointed representative, his principal;
"business day" means any day except Saturday, Sunday or a bank holiday, where “bank holiday” includes Christmas Day and Good Friday;
"document" means a notice, direction or document (as defined in section 417 of the Act) of any kind;
"an investigating authority" means the FCA, the PRA, the Bank of England or the Secretary of State, as the case may be;
"investigator" means a person appointed by an inves
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