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Version date: 31 December 2020 - onwards
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Article 17

1. The FCA may prohibit or restrict the following in or from the United Kingdom:

(a) the marketing, distribution or sale of insurance-based investment products or insurance-based investment products with certain specified features; or

(b) a type of financial activity or practice of an insurance or reinsurance undertaking.

2. The FCA may take the action referred to in paragraph 1 if it is satisfied on reasonable grounds that:

(a) an insurance-based investment product, or activity or practice gives rise to significant investor protection concerns or poses a threat to the orderly functioning and integrity of financial markets or the stability of whole or part of the financial system within the United Kingdom;

(b) existing regulatory requirements under the law of the United Kingdom, or any part of the United Kingdom, applicable to the insurance-based investment product, or activity or practice do not sufficiently address the risks referred to in point (a) and the issue would not be better addressed by improved supervision or enforcement of existing requirements;