(1) Where the FCA has received an application for approval of a prospectus, it may suspend its scrutiny of the prospectus on the ground that -
(a) before receiving the application, it had imposed a prohibition or restriction under Article 42 of the markets in financial instruments regulation in relation to any financial activity or practice of the applicant;
(b) in considering the application, it has decided to impose a prohibition or restriction under that Article in relation to the transferable securities to which the prospectus relates or any financial activity or practice of the applicant;
(c) before receiving the application, it had found that a financial activity or practice of the applicant had contravened product intervention rules; or
(d) in considering the application, it has decided that the approval of the prospectus would be likely to result in a contravention of product intervention rules.
(2) The FCA must resume its consideration of the application for approval of the pr
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