Part 1: Labour Market and Illegal Working Section 13: Relationship with other agencies: requests for assistance
This section amends the Gangmasters (Licensing) Act 2004 by inserting a new section 22A, creating a formal statutory mechanism for the GLAA to request assistance from the police, Director General of the National Crime Agency, immigration officers and other prescribed persons when it believes that its efforts to tackle labour market exploitation can be improved by this assistance. Any such request that is made must be responded to in writing. This section also creates a reciprocal power for the police, immigration officers and other prescribed persons to request assistance from the GLAA, only when they believe that the assistance of the GLAA can support the delivery of their functions.
	Subsection (2) makes clear that the regulation-making powers under this section can only be used in relation to reserved matters so that the GLAA will only be allowed to request assistance from UK bodies whose functions are reserved.
	Subsection (3) would allow other bodies to be included in this list by the Secretary of State through regulations subject to the affirmative procedure.