PART 4STANDARDS

CHAPTER 8STANDARDS INVESTIGATIONS AND REPORTS

Standards investigations

61Standards investigations

(1)

In this Measure “standards investigation” means an investigation carried out in relation to a person (P) for the purpose of determining one or more of the following questions—

(a)

whether P should be — or should continue to be — liable to be required to comply with standards;

(b)

if P is within Schedule 6, what standards (if any) should be — or should continue to be — potentially applicable to P;

(c)

if P is within Schedule 8, what services (if any) should be — or should continue to be — specified in column (2) of P's entry in the Schedule 8 table;

(d)

what standards (if any) should be — or should continue to be —specifically applicable to P (whether or not the standards are already specified by the Welsh Ministers under section 26(1));

(e)

any other question which the Commissioner considers to be relevant to the extent to which P may be subject to the duty in section 25(1) to comply with standards.

(2)

A particular standards investigation may be carried out in relation to—

(a)

a particular person, or

(b)

a group of persons.