Commentary on Sections Part 4: Financial Services Compensation Scheme Section 170: Contingency Funding
383.This section inserts new section 214A into the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
384.The new section confers a power on the Treasury to make regulations to permit the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (the FSCS) to impose levies to build up contingency funds in advance of possible defaults by firms which would give rise to the payment of compensation under the scheme (“pre-funding”). It also sets out certain matters which may be covered in those regulations and allows the Financial Services Authority (the FSA) to make rules relating to contingency funds provided they are compatible with the regulations the Treasury has made.