{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognised-auction-platforms-regulations-2011/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognised-auction-platforms-regulations-2011/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2011/2699",
  "legislation_title": "The Recognised Auction Platforms Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/recognised-auction-platforms-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Authority's power to give directions",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if it appears to the Authority that a recognised auction platform—\n(a) has failed, or is likely to fail, to satisfy the auction recognition requirements; or\n(b) has failed to comply with any other obligation imposed on it by or under these Regulations.\n(2) The Authority may direct the body to take specified steps for the purpose of securing the body's compliance with—\n(a) the auction recognition requirements; or\n(b) any obligation of the kind in question.\n(3) Those steps may include—\n(a) the granting to the Authority of access to the premises of the auction platform for the purpose of inspecting—\n(i) those premises; or\n(ii) any documents on the premises which appear to the Authority to be relevant for the purpose mentioned in paragraph (2);\n(b) the suspension of the carrying on of any regulated activity by the auction platform for the period specified in the direction.\n(4) A direction under this regulation is enforceable, on the application of the Authority, by an injunction or, in Scotland, by an order for specific performance under section 45 of the Court of Session Act 1988 .\n(5) The fact that a rule made by a recognised auction platform has been altered in response to a direction given by the Authority does not prevent it from being subsequently altered or revoked by the auction platform.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1988 c. 36."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/2699/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:50:43.101012+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."
}