{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-enforcement-and-sanctions-act-2008/section-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-enforcement-and-sanctions-act-2008/section-12.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/13",
  "legislation_title": "Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-enforcement-and-sanctions-act-2008",
  "path": "section/12",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Relationship with other regulators",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State and a regulator to which this section applies must enter into a memorandum of understanding with each other as to how they will work together in the exercise of their respective functions.\n(2) This section applies to the following regulators—\n(a) the Environment Agency;\n(b) the Food Standards Agency;\n(c) the Gambling Commission;\n(d) the Health and Safety Executive;\n(e) the Competition and Markets Authority .\n(3) The Secretary of State must consult the Welsh Ministers about—\n(a) revising an existing memorandum of understanding, or\n(b) entering into a new one,\nwhich relates to a devolved Welsh matter.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(1) substituted (2.2.2012) by The Local Better Regulation Office (Dissolution and Transfer of Functions, Etc.) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/246), arts. 1(2), 2, 4(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(a) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(2)(e) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/892), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 179 (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 12(3) inserted (2.2.2012) by The Local Better Regulation Office (Dissolution and Transfer of Functions, Etc.) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/246), arts. 1(2), 2, 4(2), Sch. 1 para. 7(b) (with Sch. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 12(3) substituted (1.10.2016) by Enterprise Act 2016 (c. 12), ss. 21(2)(d), 44(5); S.I. 2016/695, art. 3(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/13/section/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:34:57.307426+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."
}