The Financial Services Act 1986 was a landmark UK Act of Parliament aimed at regulating investment business through the Securities and Investment Board and Self-Regulating Organizations. It laid down comprehensive legislation for many of the recommendations of the Gower Report and was superseded by the Financial Services and Markets Act in 2000.
An influential report on the protection of investors delivered to the UK government in 1984 by Professor Jim Gower, which laid the groundwork for the Financial Services Act 1986.
