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Regulation 48 Duties of the FCA: guidance on politically exposed persons

(1) The FCA must give guidance under section 139A of FSMA (power of the FCA to give guidance) [2000 c.8. Section 139A was substituted (together with the rest of Part 9A of FSMA) for the original Part 10 by section 24 of the Financial Services Act 2012 (c.21).] to relevant persons, who are subject to rules made by the FCA, in relation to the enhanced customer due diligence measures required under regulation 35 in respect of politically exposed persons ("PEPs"), their family members and known close associates (within the meanings given in regulation 35(12)).

(2) The guidance referred to in paragraph (1) must include guidance on the following matters -

(a) taking into account regulation 35(14), what functions are, and are not, to be taken to be "prominent public functions" for the purposes of determining whether an individual is a PEP;

(b) which persons should be treated as coming within the definitions of -

(i) a family member of a PEP; or

(ii) a known close associate of a PEP;

(c) what

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