Part 1: The Small Business Commissioner Section 7: Scheme regulations
This section requires the Secretary of State to make "scheme regulations" to address how complaints should be made by small businesses, and details of how the Commissioner will consider, determine and may report on them.
	The regulations are to set out a time limit after which complaints cannot be considered and will establish that a complaint cannot generally be considered by the Commissioner if it has not been communicated to the respondent business. The regulations are to provide that the time limit can be extended in certain circumstances, and to specify circumstances in which a complaint need not be communicated to the respondent first. Subsection (3)(c) and (d) set out other factors that the regulations may stipulate to permit the Commissioner to dismiss a complaint.
	The scheme regulations must include factors for the Commissioner to take into consideration in deciding whether something complained of is fair and reasonable, and factors to be taken into consideration in deciding whether to name the respondent in a report to be published under section 6. These factors are non-exhaustive.
	The scheme regulations may not specify that certain practices are fair or unfair, because the Commissioner is to consider fairness and reasonableness on a case by case basis, taking account of the particular circumstances of each complaint.
	The Secretary of State must consult appropriate persons before making scheme regulations and the regulations must be approved by both Houses of Parliament.