Part 2: UK Market Access: Services UK Market Access: Services Section 19: Services: mutual recognition of authorisation requirements
This section establishes a principle of mutual recognition authorisation to requirements in relation to the provision of services.
	Subsection (1) provides that an authorisation requirement, that is required to be met to carry out a business of providing certain services in one part of the UK (Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, England), does not apply if the service provider has been authorised to carry out that business providing that service in another part of the UK.
	The definition of service provider in 17(9) provides that a service provider must be providing services in the course of its own business. As such, section 19 will not apply to employees.
	Subsection (2) sets out that for the purposes of the principle of mutual recognition in subsection (1), a person is authorised to provide services if they have the permission of a regulator, where that regulator has functions that extend to, at least, the whole of a part of the UK. It does not, therefore, apply to authorisations, related to less than the whole of a part of the UK, for example to carry out services in a particular local authority’s area.
	Subsection (3) provides that a person is not authorised to provide services, and therefore the mutual recognition principle does not apply, if the authorisation only allows a service provider to provide their services in relation to a particular premises, location or piece of infrastructure. This would mean, for example, that a licence to provide a certain service from a particular shop premises would not permit that person to provide the service from any shop premises.
	Subsection (4) allows a derogation from the general principle in subsection (1), to the extent that the authorisation requirement in question can reasonably be justified as a response to a public health emergency.