Part 2: Claims Management Services Charges for claims management services Section 30: PPI claims: interim restriction on charges before transfer of regulation to FCA
This section deals with the application and enforcement of the fee cap before the transfer of regulation of claims management services to the Financial Conduct Authority. It makes provision to apply the cap to services in relation to PPI claims provided by-
	those authorised to provide regulated claims management services under the Compensation Act 2006; and
legal services providers
	Subsection (1) sets out the general prohibition that a regulated person must not charge a claimant, or enter into an agreement that would require a claimant to pay, for regulated services an amount that exceeds the interim fee cap.
	Whilst a breach of subsection (1) is not a breach of statutory duty, under subsection (2) where a breach has occurred a claimant is entitled to recover any payment in excess of the cap and any provision(s) in an agreement to pay in excess of the fee cap unenforceable.
	Subsection (4) imposes a duty on the relevant regulators to ensure they have appropriate arrangements for monitoring and enforcing the fee cap prohibitions and a power to them to make rules for the purpose of doing so, if required.
	Subsections (5), (6) and (7) deal with the meaning of "regulated person", "relevant regulator", "regulator" and "reserved legal activity".
	Subsection (8) states that the prohibition under this Section will only apply to charges imposed, or to agreements that provide for the payment of charges, during the ‘first interim period’. The ‘first interim period’ is defined in subsection (9) and will begin on the day on which the section comes into force until claims management activity becomes a regulated activity and thus regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority.