Clause 37
Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [Lords]
5:15 pm
Pat McFadden (Minister of State (Employment Relations and Postal Affairs), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; Wolverhampton South East, Labour)
I take your guidance, Mr. Chope.
Clause 37 defines the terms “regulator” and “designated regulator”. The regulator is a person specified under schedule 5. That lists a number of national regulators to which the powers will refer, many of which are familiar to members of the Committee. Subsection (3) makes it clear what is not included, such as the Crown Prosecution Service, the police and so on because those organisations retain a role in respect of criminal prosecutions that are an alternative to the sanction regimes that we are discussing now. The clause defines the regulators to which the powers would apply.