{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumers-estate-agents-and-redress-act-2007/section-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/consumers-estate-agents-and-redress-act-2007/section-8.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/8",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "The representative function",
  "text": "(1) The GCCNI may—\n(a) provide advice and information to persons within subsection (2) about consumer matters,\n(b) make proposals to such persons about consumer matters, and\n(c) represent the views of consumers on consumer matters to such persons.\n(2) Those persons are—\n(a) any Minister of the Crown or government department;\n(b) the Scottish Ministers;\n(c) the Welsh Ministers;\n(d) any regulatory body established by or under an enactment;\n(e) the European Commission or any other international organisation;\n(f) any other person whom the GCCNI considers might have an interest in the matter in question.\n(3) In this section “ enactment ” means—\n(a) an Act of Parliament,\n(b) an Act of the Scottish Parliament,\n(c) a Measure or Act of the National Assembly for Wales, or\n(d) Northern Ireland legislation,\nwhenever passed or made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(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(12)(a) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, Sch. 2 paras. 13-15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 8(2)(f) 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(12)(b) (with Sch. 1 para. 28, Sch. 2 paras. 13-15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 8 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/8",
    "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."
}