845.This section requires Monitor to consult on and publish guidance about the way in which it will exercise its powers to impose discretionary requirements and to accept enforcement undertakings (subsection (1)). Subsection (5) provides that Monitor must have regard to the published guidance in exercising those powers. Guidance would give licensees and others a better understanding of the enforcement action that Monitor is likely to take in particular circumstances.
846.Subsection (4) provides that the guidance must include details of when Monitor is likely to impose a discretionary requirement and when it may not impose one, how it will decide the amount of variable monetary penalties, and how decisions may be appealed.