Commentary on Sections Background Section 79: Cancellation of designation: powers of entry etc
202.Where an approved regulator has its designation cancelled, this section provides for the Board to request assistance from the former licensing authority to enable regulation by the new licensing authority to continue. Section 79(3) to 79(10) make provision for the Board to obtain a warrant to enter and search the premises of the former licensing authority and to take possession of written or electronic records where necessary or desirable to enable regulation to continue. The Lord Chancellor must make regulations, either on the Board’s recommendation or after consulting it, which specify further matters that the judge must take into account before issuing a warrant, which regulate the exercise of the warrant power and set out the circumstances in which records can be copied.