Section 8 Expenses etc and reports

(1)

There shall be paid out of money provided by Parliament—

(a)

any expenses incurred by a Minister of the Crown or government department in consequence of the provisions of this Act; and

(b)

any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of money so provided under any other enactment;

and any sums received by a Minister of the Crown or a government department by virtue of this Act shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

(2)

It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to lay before each House of Parliament from time to time, and in any event not less than once in every five years, a report on the exercise of the functions under this Act and, while the 1961 c. 40.Consumer Protection Act 1961 remains in force, of the functions under that Act, of the Secretary of State and of persons on whom duties are imposed by virtue of section 5 of this Act.