Grocery Market Ombudsman Bill

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Session 2009 - 10
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Grocery Market Ombudsman Bill

Grocery Market Ombudsman Bill

Contents
1
Appointment of an independent Grocery Market Ombudsman by the Office
of Fair Trading
2
Duties to establish and publish procedures and guidelines
3
Investigations and determinations by the Ombudsman
4
Ombudsman to provide written reasons for decisions
5
Power to gather information
6
Power to impose monetary penalties
7
Power to award costs
8
Enforcement of monetary penalties and costs orders
9
Appeal
10
Reporting requirement
11
Funding of the Ombudsman
12
The reimbursement formula
13
Abuse of the reimbursement formula or the Ombudsman’s investigatory
function
14
Financial provisions
15
Interpretation
16
Short title and extent

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