{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumers-estate-agents-and-redress-act-2007/section-32",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumers-estate-agents-and-redress-act-2007/section-32.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/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "Transfer orders and abolition orders",
  "text": "(1) Where the Consumer Council for Water is designated for abolition under section 31, the Secretary of State may make in respect of it—\n(a) one or more transfer orders;\n(b) an abolition order.\n(2) A transfer order is an order which provides for the transfer to Citizens Advice of any function of the Consumer Council for Water.\n(3) An abolition order is an order which provides for the abolition of the Consumer Council for Water.\n(4) No provision of an order under this section may take effect before the date specified under section 31(2).\n(4A) A transfer order may be made only with the consent of Citizens Advice.\n(5) A transfer order or abolition order may be made only with the consent of the Welsh Ministers.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 32(2) 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(34)(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, Sch. 2 paras. 13-15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 32(4A) 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(34)(b) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, Sch. 2 paras. 13-15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 32 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/32",
    "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."
}