48.Subsection (1) provides for the first of the Council’s three core functions: to provide advice and information, to make proposals about consumer matters and to represent the views of consumers to the people set out in subsection (2). Consumer matters are defined in section 3.
49.Subsection (2) lists the persons to whom the Council may make representations. These include Ministers, regulators, the European Commission and anyone else the Council considers might have an interest.