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PART 3 U.K.Touting, advertising and trading offences

EnforcementU.K.

20Enforcement of offences under Part 3U.K.

(1)Section 10 (ticket touting offence) may be enforced by—

(a)a local weights and measures authority in Great Britain, or

(b)the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland.

(2)But subsection (1) does not authorise a local weights and measures authority in Scotland to bring proceedings for an offence under section 10.

(3)Sections 13 (advertising offence) and 16 (trading offence) may be enforced by a local weights and measures authority in England.

(4)For the investigatory powers available to a local weights and measures authority and the Department for the Economy, see Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015.

(5)In paragraph 10 of Schedule 5 to that Act (duties and powers to which Schedule 5 applies), insert at the appropriate place— “ section 20(1) and (3) of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games Act 2020; ”.

(6)Schedule 3 contains further provision about the enforcement of offences under this Part.