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Financial Services Act 2012

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17.The Act contains ten Parts and twenty one Schedules. The Act makes changes to a number of existing Acts, most notably the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, the Bank of England Act 1998 and the Banking Act 2009. The general arrangement of the Act is as follows:

Part 1Bank of England
Part 2Amendments of Financial Services and Market Act 2000
Part 3Mutual societies
Part 4Collaboration between Treasury, Bank of England, FCA or PRA
Part 5Inquiries and investigations
Part 6Investigations of complaints against regulators
Part 7Offences relating to financial services
Part 8Amendments of Banking Act 2009
Part 9Miscellaneous
Part 10General

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