107 Tying-in: enforcement

107  Tying-in: enforcement

(1)     Every local weights and measures authority (“an authority”) and the [FCA] shall have the duty of enforcing sections 104 to 106 and any regulations made under them.

(2)     Nothing in subsection (1) is to be taken as authorising a local weights and measures authority in Scotland to institute proceedings for an offence.

(3)     Where an authority propose to institute proceedings for an offence under section 106 they shall give the [FCA] notice of the intended proceedings together with a summary of the facts on which the charges are to be founded.

(4)     Where an authority are under a duty to give such a notice and summary they shall not institute the proceedings until—

(a)     the end of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which they gave the required notice and summary; or

(b)     if earlier, the date on which the [FCA] notifies them of receipt of the notice and summary.

(5)     Every authority shall, whenever the [FCA] requires, report to [it] in such form and with such particulars as [it] requires on the exercise of their functions under this section.

(6)     A duly authorised officer of the [FCA] or of an

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