SRA Standards and Regulations
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Scope of service
Where you propose, or give a client a personal recommendation for, a contract of insurance, then in good time before the conclusion of an initial contract of insurance and if necessary on its amendment or renewal, you must provide the client with information on whether you: give a personal recommendation on the basis of a fair and personal analysis; are under a contractual obligation to...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Demands and needs
Prior to the conclusion of a contract of insurance, you must specify on the basis of information obtained from the client, the demands and needs of that client. The details must be adapted according to the complexity of the contract of insurance proposed and the individual circumstances of the client. You must give the client a statement of the client's demands and needs prior to the...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Remuneration disclosure
In good time before the conclusion of the initial contract of insurance and if necessary, on its amendment or renewal, you must provide the client with information: on the nature of the remuneration received in relation to the contract of insurance; about whether in relation to the contract you work on the basis of: a fee, that is remuneration paid directly by the client; a commission of any...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Status disclosure
Notwithstanding the wider information obligations in the SRA Codes of Conduct, you must give the client the following information in writing in a manner that is clear, fair and not misleading before providing a service which includes the carrying on of a regulated financial services activity and in good time before the conclusion of a contract of insurance: a statement that you are not...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Appropriation of payments
Where you are entitled to payments from the same client in respect of two or more regulated credit agreements, you must allow the client to put any payments made, in respect of those agreements, towards the satisfaction of the sum due under any one or more of the agreements in such proportions as the client thinks fit.
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Status disclosure
Notwithstanding the wider information obligations in the SRA Codes of Conduct, you must give the client the following information in writing in a manner that is clear, fair and not misleading before providing a service which includes the carrying on of a regulated financial services activity and in good time before the conclusion of a contract of insurance: a statement that you are not...
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Execution of transactions
You must ensure that where you have agreed or decided in your discretion to effect a transaction, you must do so as soon as possible, unless you reasonably believe that it is in the client's best interests not to.
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SRA Financial Services (Conduct of Business) Rules
Consumer credit guidance
Where you undertake credit-related regulated financial services activities, you must have regard to any guidance issued by the SRA from time to time relating to such activities.
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SRA Regulatory and Disciplinary Procedure Rules
Consideration by authorised decision makers
On finding that an allegation is proved (save for sub-paragraph (g)), an authorised decision maker may decide as appropriate in respect of a relevant person to: give a written rebuke, in accordance with section 44D(2)(a) of the SA or paragraph 14B(2)(a), Schedule 2 to the AJA; subject to rule 3.6, direct the payment of a financial penalty in accordance with section 44D(2)(b) of the SA,...
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