Consumer Scotland Act 2020

Consumer Scotland Act 2020

2020 asp 11

The Act

Overview

Part 1

Consumer Scotland

Information-gathering

Section 10 – Failure by a designated regulator to comply with a section 9 notice

29. Section 10 provides that, should a designated regulator fail to give information to Consumer Scotland, that designated regulator can be required to produce a written statement explaining the reasons for the failure. Consumer Scotland has the power to publish this explanation.

30. This section can also be applied to others who are made subject to the information-gathering requirement using the power under section 9(2)(d) (see section 9(5)(a)).