Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 (Commencement No. 4) Order 2008.

Interpretation

2.  In this Order “the Act” means the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007.

Commencement

3.—(1) The provision of the Act specified in Schedule 1 shall come into force on 1st April 2008.

(2) The provisions of the Act specified in Schedule 2 shall come into force on 1st October 2008.

Article 3(1)

SCHEDULE 1PROVISION COMING INTO FORCE ON 1ST APRIL 2008

Article 3(2)

SCHEDULE 2PROVISIONS COMING INTO FORCE ON 1ST OCTOBER 2008

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force further provisions of the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 as specified in the Schedules to the Order. The provision in Schedule 1 relates to the keeping of accounts by the National Consumer Council. The provisions in Schedule 2 amend the Estate Agents Act 1979 by expanding the grounds for the issue by the Office of Fair Trading of prohibition and warning orders and increasing the investigatory powers of enforcement officers. The provision in Schedule 1 comes into force on 1st April 2008 and the provisions in Schedule 2 come into force on 1st October 2008.

NOTE AS TO EARLIER COMMENCEMENT ORDERS

(This note is not part of the Order)

The following provisions of the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 have been brought into force by commencement orders made before the date of this Order. The provision marked with an * below is contained in the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 (Commencement No.3 and Supplementary Provision) Order 2008, a draft of which was laid before Parliament on 7th March 2008. It is subject to approval by a resolution of each House of Parliament and has not yet been made, but it is intended that it should come into force on 7th May 2008.