Transport Act 2000

11 (1) Section 55 (orders for securing compliance) is amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (5) insert—

“(5ZA) The Authority shall not make a final order, or make or confirm a provisional order, in relation to a licence holder or person under closure restrictions unless—

(a) it has given notice to the Regulator specifying a period within which he may give notice to it if he considers that the most appropriate way of proceeding is under the [1998 c. 41.] Competition Act 1998;

(b) that period has expired; and

(c) the Regulator has not given notice to the Authority within that period that he so considers (or, if he has, he has withdrawn it).”

(3) In subsection (10), in the definition of “the appropriate officer”—

(a) in paragraph (a), after “holder” insert “, apart from a condition which relates to consumer protection,”, and

(b) in paragraph (b), after “to” insert “any condition relating to consumer protection in the case of a licence holder or to”.

(4) In subsection (11), for “(5A)” substitute “(5ZA)”.