Part 3: Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act Section 29D: Overlapping inspection plans
This section makes provision for cases where there is more than one relevant inspection plan in respect of the same inspection function in relation to the same person. The effect of the section is that an inspection plan made by a direct primary authority must be followed even where there is also an inspection plan made by a co-ordinated primary authority.
	Where a direct primary authority has made an inspection plan to which the Secretary of State has consented, section 26B(2) (which would require the primary authority as an inspecting regulator to exercise the inspection function in accordance with another plan if it was notified of the other plan) does not apply (subsection (3)).
	Subsections (4) and (5) make provision for the situation where a co-ordinated primary authority is an inspecting authority and a direct primary authority has also made an inspection plan in respect of the same inspection function for the same person. These subsections provide that section 26B(1), which would require the co-ordinated primary authority as an inspecting regulator to exercise the inspection function in accordance with its own plan (if one is made), does not apply, and section 26B(2), which would require the co-ordinated primary authority to follow an inspection plan made by an inspecting authority applies only to the inspection plan made by the direct primary authority.
	Where a co-ordinated primary authority has made an inspection plan, section 26B(2), which would require the primary authority as an inspecting regulator to exercise the inspection function in accordance with another plan if it was notified of another plan, does not apply (subsection (6)) unless such other plan was made by a direct primary authority.
	In all other cases where there is more than one inspection plan in respect of an inspection function for the same person, the reference in section 26B(2) to the plan must be read as a reference to the plan made by a direct primary authority or, where there is no such plan, as a reference to any one of the plans brought to the attention of the inspecting regulator (subsection (7)).