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Version date: 31 December 2020 - onwards
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Regulation 9 Power of Authority to require restitution

(1) The Authority may exercise the power in paragraph (2) if it is satisfied that a payment service provider has contravened a requirement imposed by the Regulations, or has been knowingly concerned in the contravention of such a requirement, and that -

(a) profits have accrued to the payment service provider concerned as a result of the contravention; or

(b) one or more persons have suffered loss or been otherwise adversely affected as a result of the contravention.

(2) The power referred to in paragraph (1) is a power to require the payment service provider concerned, in accordance with such arrangements as the Authority considers appropriate, to pay to the appropriate person or distribute among the appropriate persons such amount as appears to the Authority to be just having regard -

(a) in a case within sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1), to the profits appearing to the Authority to have accrued;

(b) in a case within sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph (1), to the extent of the loss or other adverse effect;