Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 1433

FINANCIAL SERVICES AND MARKETS

The Prospectus Regulations 2005

Made

26th May 2005

Laid before Parliament

27th May 2005

Coming into force

1st July 2005

The Treasury are a government department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to listing of securities on a stock exchange and information concerning listed securities and also in relation to measures relating to prospectuses on offers of transferable securities to the public;

The Treasury, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 2(2) of that Act, hereby make the following Regulations:

(1)

S.I. 1992/1315, regulation 9.

(2)

1972 c. 68. By virtue of the amendment of section 1(2) made by section 1 of the European Economic Area Act 1993 (c. 51) regulations may be made under section 2(2) to implement obligations of the United Kingdom created by or arising under the Agreement on the European Economic Area signed at Oporto on 2nd May 1992 (Cm 2073) and the Protocol adjusting that Agreement signed at Brussels on 17th March 1993 (Cm 2183).