Markets in Financial Instruments Act 2018
Acts of the Oireachtas
Source: Acts of the Oireachtas

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paragraphs: This Act may be cited as the Markets in Financial Instruments Act 2018.
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paragraphs: The expenses incurred by the Minister for Finance in the administration of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.
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paragraphs: Section 5 of the Markets in Financial Instruments and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2007 is repealed.
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paragraphs: In this Part “Act of 1942” means the Central Bank Act 1942 .
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paragraphs: (1) In this section—
“relevant offence” means an offence under Regulation 119(8) or (9) of the relevant Regulations where the contravention concerned is—
(a) a contravention consisting of providing an investment service or performing an investment activity without the required authorisation in accordance with Regulation 5 of those Regulations,
(b) a contravention of any provision of those Regulations specified in the Table to this section, or
(c) a contravention consisting of a failure to comply with a requirement made, pursuant to Regulation 95(2) of those Regulations, by an authorised officer within the meaning of those Regulations;
“relevant Regulations” means the European Union (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2017 ( S.I. No. 375 of 2017 ).
(2) A person who is guilty of a relevant offence shall be liable, on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €10,000,000 or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years or both.
(3) Subsection (2) is without prejudice to any penalties provided by the relevant Regulations in respect of a summary conviction for the relevant offence.
Table
Regulation 16
Regulation 20(1), (2), (7) or (8)
Regulation 23(1)(k), (l) or (m)
Regulation 23(11)
Regulation 24(11)
Regulation 28(1)
Regulation 30
Regulation 31
Regulation 35
Regulation 36
Regulation 37(8)
Regulation 59
Regulation 70(a), (d), (e) or (f)
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paragraphs: Fees shall be payable in accordance with section 32E (inserted by section 14 of the Central Bank Reform Act 2010 ) of the Act of 1942 in respect of the performance by the Central Bank of Ireland of its functions under the European Union (Markets in Financial Instruments) Regulations 2017.
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paragraphs: The Act of 1942 is amended in Part 1 of Schedule 2 by the insertion of the following:
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paragraphs: Section 2 of the Credit Reporting Act 2013 is amended—
(a) in the definition of “credit” in subsection (1), by the substitution of the following for paragraph (f):
“(f) in the form of trade credit, or”,
and
(b) by the insertion of the following after subsection (1):
“(1A) For the purposes of paragraph (f) of the definition of ‘credit’ in subsection (1), a loan, deferred payment or other form of financial accommodation (the ‘relevant credit’) is provided in the form of trade credit if the following conditions are satisfied—
(a) in the case of both the person (the ‘first-mentioned person’) by whom, and the person to whom, the relevant credit is provided, each is acting in the course of his or her business, trade or profession,
(b) the first-mentioned person is not a regulated financial services provider,
(c) the terms of the relevant credit provide for repayment, whether in instalments or as a single amount, of the whole of the credit by a date that is not later than 6 months after the date of its provision, and
(d) the purpose of the relevant credit is to facilitate the purchase of goods or services from the first-mentioned person.”.
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paragraphs: (1) Section 2 (1) of the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017 is amended by the substitution of the following for the definition of “long-term financial service”:
“ ‘long-term financial service’ means—
(a) subject to paragraph (b) and subsection (3), a financial service the duration of which is a fixed term of 5 years and one month, or more, but, notwithstanding that the aggregate term of them may be 5 years and one month (or more), there does not fall within this paragraph a series of consecutive terms in respect of a financial service’s duration (provided no individual one of them is 5 years and one month, or more, in length), or
(b) a financial service that is—
(i) life assurance to which, by virtue of Regulation 4 of those Regulations, the European Communities (Life Assurance) Framework Regulations 1994 ( S.I. No. 360 of 1994 ) apply (not being life assurance falling within Class VII defined in the first Annex thereto), or