Section 20 Enforcement of offences under Part 3

(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.