PART IIIAPPOINTMENT AND REGULATION OF UNDERTAKERS

CHAPTER IIICONSUMER PROTECTION: THE GENERAL CONSUMER COUNCIL

Power of the Council to investigate other mattersI156

1

The Council may investigate any matter (not being a matter which it is its duty to investigate under this Part) which appears to it to be a matter relating to the interests of consumers.

2

Where the Council has investigated a matter under this Article it may make a report on that matter to the Authority, the Department, the OFT or any other public authority whose functions appear to the Council to be exercisable in relation to that matter.

3

Subject to Article 57, the Council may—

a

send a report on any matter investigated under this Article to any person who appears to the Council to have an interest in that matter; and

b

publish any such report in such manner as the Council thinks appropriate.