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Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013

Preliminary provisions - Purposes

3: Main purposes

You could also call this:

"What the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 is trying to achieve"

The main purposes of the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 are to help you feel confident and informed when you are involved in financial markets, whether you are a business, an investor, or a consumer. This Act also aims to help financial markets work in a fair, efficient, and transparent way. You can expect the Act to promote the development of financial markets that are like this.

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"When the Financial Markets Conduct Act 2013 starts to apply"

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Part 1Preliminary provisions
Purposes

3Main purposes

  1. The main purposes of this Act are to—

  2. promote the confident and informed participation of businesses, investors, and consumers in the financial markets; and
    1. promote and facilitate the development of fair, efficient, and transparent financial markets.