Part 3: Enforcement of consumer protection law Chapter 1: Overview Section 147: Overview
This section provides an overview of the structure of this Part.
	Chapter 2 defines the scope of the Part 3 enforcement regimes (subsection (2)).
	Chapter 3 sets out the court-based regime and which enforcers can use it (subsection (3)). It provides for enforcers to apply for, and the courts to make, the following types of orders:
Enforcement orders,
Interim enforcement orders,
Online interface orders (only public designated enforcers may apply), or
Interim online interface orders (only public designated enforcers may apply).
	An enforcer or the court can accept an undertaking from the enforcement subject instead of making an application for, or making, an enforcement order or interim enforcement order.
	Chapter 3 provides for certain enforcers and the court to attach remedies - enhanced consumer measures - to enforcement orders and undertakings. The enhanced consumer measures need to fall into at least one of three specified categories (referred to as the "redress", "compliance" and "choice" categories). Measures in the redress category offer compensation or other redress to affected consumers. Compliance measures are intended to increase business compliance with the law and to reduce the likelihood of further breaches. Measures in the choice category help consumers obtain relevant market information to enable them to make better purchasing decisions.
	It also provides new powers for the courts to impose civil monetary penalties on enforcement subjects who have infringed the consumer protection laws within scope of Part 3.
	Finally, it provides new powers for the courts to impose civil monetary penalties for non-compliance with an undertaking.
	Chapter 4 provides a new direct enforcement regime for the CMA in respect of the consumer protection laws listed in Schedule 16 (subsection 4). Chapter 4 provides a new express power for the CMA to investigate suspected infringements. It provides new powers for the CMA to give provisional and final infringement, breach of undertakings and breach of directions enforcement notices. These notices may include compliance directions, impose monetary penalties and, for infringement notices, attach enhanced consumer measures.
	Chapter 4 provides new powers for the CMA to give online interface notices. The CMA may accept an undertaking instead of giving a final infringement notice and where it has not given an online interface notice.
	Chapter 4 provides for the CMA to make an application to the court where a direction included in a final notice has not been complied with.
	Finally, it provides a new power for the CMA to give provisional and final false information notices to any person who provides the CMA with materially false or misleading information in connection with the exercise of the CMA’s functions under Chapter 4 or the direct enforcement of non-compliance with CMA information notices (see explanatory note for section 208 and Schedule 17 below in relation to direct enforcement of non-compliance with CMA information notices).