{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumers-estate-agents-and-redress-act-2007/section-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumers-estate-agents-and-redress-act-2007/section-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/17",
  "legislation_title": "Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumers-estate-agents-and-redress-act-2007",
  "path": "section/18",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Secretary of State's power to require reports",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may direct the GCCNI to prepare, and submit to the Secretary of State within a specified period, a report in respect of any matter specified in the direction which relates to consumer matters which relate to postal services in Northern Ireland.\n(2) The Secretary of State may publish any report submitted under this section.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading's Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/631), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 12(23)(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, Sch. 2 paras. 13-15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 18(1) inserted (1.4.2014) by The Public Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading's Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/631), art. 1(3), Sch. 1 para. 12(23)(b) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, Sch. 2 paras. 13-15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 18 in force at 1.10.2008 by S.I. 2008/2550 , art. 2 , Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/17/section/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:39.904529+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}