Commercial Licensing Regulations 2015

At a glance

How Commercial Licensing Regulations 2015 is organised

The 7 Parts below are the instrument's own divisions, in the order the official text sets them out.

What Commercial Licensing Regulations 2015 covers, section by section

The 81 section headings below are the instrument's own, reproduced in its order. They are a map of the law, not a summary of it — for the wording of any article, read the official text.

1. The general prohibition
2. Controlled activities
3. Contravention of the general prohibition
4. Licensed persons exceeding scope of licence
5. False claims to be licensed or exempt
6. Partnerships
7. Withdrawal of licence
8. Exemption orders
9. Application for a licence
10. Granting licences
11. Granting licences: special cases
12. Variation by Registrar at request of licensed person
13. Variation or cancellation on initiative of Registrar
14. Imposition of requirements by Registrar
15. Requirements under section 14: further provisions
16. Applications under this Part
17. Determination of applications
18. Determination of applications: warning notices and decision notices
19. Exercise of own-initiative power: procedure
20. Cancellation of licence: procedure
21. Right to refer matters to the court
22. Power to make rules
23. Modification or waiver of rules
24. Publication of directions under section 23
25. Limit on effect of contravening rules
26. Rule-making instruments
27. Verification of rules
28. Power of the Registrar to give guidance
29. Registrar's power to require information: licensed persons etc.
30. Appointment of persons to carry out general investigations
31. Appointment of persons to carry out investigations in particular cases
32. Investigations: general
33. Powers of persons appointed under section 30
34. Additional power of persons appointed as a result of section 31
35. Admissibility of statements made to investigators
36. Information and documents: supplemental provisions
37. Entry of premises under warrant
38. Retention of documents taken under section 37
39. Contraventions
40. Meaning of "relevant requirement"
41. Fines
42. Suspending licence to carry on controlled activities etc.
43. Proposal to take disciplinary measures
44. Decision to take disciplinary measures
45. Statements of policy
46. Statements of policy: procedure
47. Warning notices
48. Decision notices
49. Notices of discontinuance
50. Final notices
51. Publication
52. Third party rights
53. Access to material
54. The Registrar's procedures
55. Statements under section 54: consultation
56. Protected items
57. Service of notices
58. Application of this Chapter
59. Name suggesting connection with government or public authority
60. Other sensitive words or expressions
61. Withdrawal of Board's approval
62. Name containing inappropriate indication of company type or legal form
63. Name giving misleading indication of activities
64. Application of this Chapter
65. Information required to be disclosed
66. Disclosure required: business documents etc.
67. Exemption for large partnerships if certain conditions met
68. Disclosure required: business premises
69. Consequences of failure to make required disclosure: contraventions
70. Consequences of failure to make required disclosure
71. Interpretation
72. Definitions
73. Carrying on controlled activities in the Abu Dhabi Global Market
74. Parent and subsidiary undertaking
75. Group
76. Meaning of "participating interest"
77. Controller
78. Disregarded holdings
79. Manager
80. Power to specify a scale of fines and contraventions by bodies corporate
81. Short title, extent and commencement

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• Commercial Licensing Regulations 2015 — official text (HTML) ADGM
• ADGM Legislation Rulebook — the register this instrument is listed in ADGM

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