Regulation 14 Information and investigation

references to Part 5 of the 2013 Act were references to the interchange fee regulation and these Regulations;

references to a participant in a regulated payment system were references to a regulated person and references to participation in a payment system were references to compliance with the interchange fee regulation read together with F1regulation 23 and with a direction given under regulation 4A;

references to a compliance failure were references to a compliance failure as defined in regulation 2(1);

in section 81 (power to obtain information or documents), subsection (1)(a) were omitted;

in section 83 (appointment of persons to conduct investigations), subsection (1) were omitted;

in section 90 (enforcement of information and investigation powers)—

in section 91 (restrictions on disclosure of confidential information), subsection (6) were omitted; and

in section 93 (offences relating to disclosure of confidential information), in subsection (4)(a) for “51 weeks (or 3 months, if the offence was committed before the commencement of section 280(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003)” there were substituted “ 3 months ”.

the reference in regulation 5(3)(a) of the 2014 Regulations (disclosure for the purposes of certain other proceedings) to Part 5 of the 2013 Act were a reference to the interchange fee regulation and these Regulations; and

the following entry were included in the table in the Schedule to the 2014 Regulations (persons and functions in respect of which disclosure is permitted)—

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F4The Competition and Markets Authority; local weights and measures authorities in Great Britain; and the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland

(a) Their functions under Part 3 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (enforcement of consumer protection law) in so far as they relate to Article 10(4) of Regulation (EU) 2015/751 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29th April 2015 on interchange fees for card-based payment transactions. (b) Co-operation with the Payment Systems Regulator under regulation 20 of the Payment Card Interchange Fee Regulations 2015 (co-operation between the Payment Systems Regulator and enforcers).

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