Part 3: Enforcement of consumer protection law Chapter 7: Miscellaneous Section 216: Enforcement of requirements relating to secondary ticketing
This section amends consumer protection legislation to confer additional enforcement powers on the CMA in relation to secondary ticketing.
	Subsections (2) and (4) amend section 93 of, and Schedule 10 to, the Consumer Rights Act 2015 to make the CMA an enforcement authority for the purposes of Chapter 5 of Part 3 of that Act. Chapter 5 (inter alia) requires, in relation to the re-sale of tickets for recreational, sporting or cultural events in the United Kingdom, operators of secondary ticketing facilities and persons re-selling those tickets on those facilities to provide specified information about those tickets. The enforcement provisions will allow the CMA to impose a financial penalty on a person for breach of the requirements of Chapter 5.
	Subsection (5) amends the Breaching of Limits on Ticket Sales Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/735) to give the CMA enforcement functions under those regulations. Those regulations make it an offence to use software to purchase tickets for those events in excess of any sales limit on the purchase of those tickets with a view to financial gain. Subsection (3) enables the CMA to use the investigatory powers in Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 for the purpose of investigating offences under those regulations.
	The enforcement powers conferred by this section are available in addition to (and do not in any way limit) the other powers that the CMA has under Part 3 of this Act in relation to infringements of Chapter 5 of Part 3 of the 2015 Act and of the regulations.