# The Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority (Complaints and Misconduct) Regulations 2017, Regulation 7: Reports to the Secretary of State

Extent: E+W

(1) As soon as practicable after the end of each of the IOPC’s financial years, the Director General and the IOPC must also jointly make a report to the Secretary of State on the carrying out of their functions during that year.
(2) The Secretary of State may also require reports to be made (at any time) by the Director General about the carrying out of the Director General’s functions.
(3) The Director General may, from time to time, make such other reports to the Secretary of State as the Director General considers appropriate for drawing the Secretary of State’s attention to matters which—
(a) have come to the Director General’s notice; and
(b) are matters that the Director General considers should be drawn to the Secretary of State’s attention by reason of their gravity or of other exceptional circumstances.
(4) The Director General must prepare such reports containing advice and recommendations as the Director General thinks appropriate for the purpose of carrying out the Director General’s function under regulation 6(1)(e).
(5) Where the Secretary of State receives any report under this regulation, the Secretary of State must—
(a) in the case of every annual report under paragraph (1); and
(b) in the case of any other report, if and to the extent that the Secretary of State considers it appropriate to do so,
lay a copy of the report before Parliament and cause the report to be published.
(6) The IOPC must send a copy of every report under paragraph (1) to the Chief Executive.
(6A) The Director General must send a copy of every report under paragraph (3) to the Chief Executive.
(7) The Director General must send a copy of every report under paragraph (4) to the Secretary of State and the Chief Executive.
(8) The Director General must send a copy of every report under paragraph (3) or (4) to such of the persons (in addition to those specified in the preceding paragraphs) who—
(a) are referred to in the report; or
(b) appear to the Director General otherwise to have a particular interest in its contents,
as the Director General thinks fit.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/521/regulation/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/gangmasters-and-labour-abuse-authority-complaints-and-misconduct-regulations-2017/regulation-7
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