SI explanatory text
These Regulations provide an exemption from all stamp duties on the transfer of a PISCES share in connection with trading activity that takes place on a PISCES under the PISCES sandbox arrangements described in regulation 3(2) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System Sandbox) Regulations 2025 (āthe PISCES Sandbox Regulationsā). The PISCES Sandbox Regulations have effect as an FMI sandbox within the meaning of section 13 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (c. 29). A PISCES is a new kind of share-trading system that will allow private companies to have their shares traded intermittently and is defined in regulation 3(3) of the PISCES Sandbox Regulations.