{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-216",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-216.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/13",
  "legislation_title": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024",
  "path": "section/216",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "216",
  "heading": "Enforcement of requirements relating to secondary ticketing",
  "text": "(1) CRA 2015 is amended as set out in subsections (2) to (4).\n(2) In section 93 (enforcement of secondary ticketing provisions in Chapter 5 of Part 3)—\n(a) after subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) The Competition and Markets Authority may also enforce the provisions of this Chapter.”;\n(b) in subsection (3) for “and (2)” substitute “, (2) and (2A)”.\n(3) In paragraph 11 of Schedule 5 (investigatory powers etc: enforcer’s legislation), in the table, at the appropriate place insert—\n“\nThe Competition and Markets Authority\nThe Breaching of Limits on Ticket Sales Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/735)\n”.\n(4) In paragraph 6 of Schedule 10 (procedure for and appeals against financial penalties imposed under section 93: recovery)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (2) for “local weights and measures” substitute “enforcement”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (4) for “the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment” substitute “the enforcement authority which imposed the financial penalty”;\n(c) in sub-paragraph (5)(a) after “Investment” insert “or by the Competition and Markets Authority”;\n(d) after sub-paragraph (7) insert—\n“(7A) The Competition and Markets Authority may use the proceeds of a financial penalty for the purposes of any of its functions (whether or not the function is expressed to be a function of the Authority).”\n(5) In the Breaching of Limits on Ticket Sales Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/735), in regulation 5 (offences: prosecution and penalties), after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(3) The Competition and Markets Authority may enforce these Regulations.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 216 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 216 in force at 6.4.2025 by S.I. 2025/272, reg. 2(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/section/216",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:09.592730+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."
}