Schedule 2: Enforcement of information requirements
207.Schedule 2 amends the Gas Act 1986 (c.44), the Electricity Act 1989 (c.29) and the Postal Services Act 2000 (c.26) in order to make provision in relation to the enforcement of the requirement on licensed providers to comply with a direction (under section 24) by a “designated investigator” to provide information to the Council.
208.The enforcement provisions by virtue of this Schedule operate in the same way as those in respect of Part 2 of the Act. Hence, the relevant regulator may impose an order for breach of the above requirements. The supplier is obliged to comply with such an order and breach of the order can be enforced in the civil courts. Breach of such an order may also render the supplier liable to pay damages to any person who has suffered loss as the result of that breach. In addition to the above, legislation concerning the relevant sector permits the regulator to impose a financial penalty for breach of the above requirements.