Clause 26
Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Bill [Lords]
4:00 pm
Pat McFadden (Minister of State (Employment Relations and Postal Affairs), Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform; Wolverhampton South East, Labour)
By the same criteria as anywhere else. It would depend on whether the company, which operates in multiple areas, has headquarters in a particular Scottish local authority, or has its main operations in a Scottish area. It may also have operations in different parts of Scotland or across Scotland and England. The same principle would apply in all those cases. There is a clause in the Bill that sets out the territorial application on which we touched. Assuming that territorial application applies and that we are talking about functions that are reserved, then LBRO’s primary authority principle will operate in the same way in Scotland as elsewhere.