Part 3: Enforcement of consumer protection law Chapter 7: Miscellaneous Section 209: Powers to amend Schedule 15 and Schedule 16
The court-based regime provided by Chapter 3 of this Part is limited in scope to commercial practices which contravene the enactments, obligations and rules of law listed, or to the extent listed, in Schedule 15. Among other matters, this section gives a delegated power to the Secretary of State to make regulations that add, remove or vary the enactments listed in Schedule 15 and hence to amend or update the scope of the court-based enforcement regime going forward (subsection (1), paragraph (a)).
	The effect of subsection (1), paragraphs (b) and (d) is that responsibilities of enforcers for enforcing different consumer protection enactments, obligations and rules of law may be updated if and when they evolve over time – for example, if it is no longer appropriate for a particular enforcer to be able to enforce particular consumer protection enactments because of a change in enforcement and/or regulatory remits.
	The CMA direct enforcement process provided by Chapter 4 of this Part is limited in scope to commercial practices which contravene the enactments specified, or to the extent specified in Schedule 16. This section also allows the Secretary of State to add, remove or vary the enactments listed in Schedule 16 and hence to amend the scope of the CMA direct enforcement regime going forward (subsection (1), paragraph (e)).
	The effect is that the scope of the CMA direct enforcement regime can be updated if regulation necessary to protect the economic interests of consumers changes in line with changes in market, trader and consumption behaviour.
	Subsections (2) and (3) limit the types of enactments that can be added to, or varied in, Schedules 15 and 16.
	Regulations made under this section are subject to the draft affirmative procedure (subsection (4)), see section 337, subsection (3)).