UK Statutory Instrument SI 2025/29 United Kingdom

The Short Selling Regulations 2025

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Enforced by
FCA
Status
In Force
Penalty ceiling
Regulated

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Financial Services Firm1

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Financial Services Firm — also bound by 179 other Acts
Directive 2009/138/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 on the taking-up and pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (Solvency II) (recast) (Text with EEA 77 duties

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s.022 Buy-in procedures Regulated
  • Central counterparties must manage settlement failures with buy-in and compensationFinancial Services Firm
29 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 Citation and extent
s.002 Commencement
s.003 Interpretation
s.004 Designated activities: short selling of admitted shares and related transactions
s.005 FCA rules relating to short selling of admitted shares and related transactions
s.006 FCA rules requiring notification of a significant net short position in the issued share capital of a company
s.007 Publication by the FCA of aggregate net short positions
s.008 FCA power to provide for waiver or exemption from rules and obligation to publish list of shares in relation to which rules apply
s.009 FCA power to exempt market making activities and stabilisation
s.010 Power of FCA to give directions in relation to activities specified in regulation 4
s.011 Overseas trading venue short selling regime
s.012 Restatement of the Short Selling Regulation Equivalence Directions 2020
s.013 FCA power to require notifications
s.014 FCA power to require notification of lending fees
s.015 FCA power to prohibit or impose conditions on short sales
s.016 Conditions applying to exercise of FCA powers in exceptional circumstances
s.017 FCA power to restrict short selling following significant price fall
s.018 Notice of FCA decision to exercise power in exceptional circumstances
s.019 FCA review of power exercised in exceptional circumstances
s.020 Statement of policy
s.021 Power of FCA to give directions in relation to Part 4
s.023 Power of FCA to give directions in relation to regulation 22
s.024 Application of FSMA 2000 for the purposes of Parts 4 and 5
s.025 Power to require information from any person
s.026 Power in relation to persons knowingly concerned in a contravention of these Regulations
s.027 Saving of FCA powers in Part 8A FSMA 2000
s.028 Saving provision in relation to Article 9(4) of Regulation (EU) No236/2012
s.029 Saving provision in relation to Article 26(3) of Regulation (EU) No600/2014
s.030 Consequential amendments
Schedules

Schedules

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19 other schedules
s.sch001 The provisions of FSMA 2000 mentioned in the Table in...
s.sch001 The general modifications are— (a) references to a regulator are...
s.sch001 This Table sets out the applied provisions of FSMA 2000...
s.sch001 The provisions of FSMA 2000 mentioned in the Table in...
s.sch001 The general modifications are— (a) references to a regulator are...
s.sch001 This Table sets out the applied provisions of FSMA 2000...
s.sch001 The provisions of FSMA 2000 mentioned in the Table in...
s.sch001 The general modifications are— (a) references to a regulator are...
s.sch001 This Table sets out the applied provisions of FSMA 2000...
s.sch002 Amendment of FSMA 2000
s.sch002 Amendment of the Equivalence Determinations for Financial Services (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020
s.sch002 Amendment of the Financial Services Act 2010
s.sch002 Amendment of the Financial Services Act 2012
s.sch002 Amendment of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) Regulations 2001
s.sch002 Amendment of the Financial Services and Markets Act (Qualifying Provisions) Order 2013
s.sch002 Amendment of the Financial Services Act 2012 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2013
s.sch002 Amendment of the Financial Regulator’s Powers (Technical Standards etc.) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
s.sch002 Amendment of the Equivalence Determinations for Financial Services and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
s.sch002 Amendment of the Gibraltar (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

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