Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013
Introduction
1The Adjudicator
How does the Adjudicator arbitrate disputes?
2Arbitration
3Information about arbitration
How does the Adjudicator carry out investigations and enforce their findings?
4Investigations
5Investigation reports
6Investigations: forms of enforcement
7Investigations: enforcement using recommendations
8Investigations: enforcement using requirements to publish information
9Investigations: enforcement using financial penalties
10Recovery of investigation costs
What advice, guidance and recommendations does the Adjudicator give?
11Advice
12Guidance
13Recommendations to Competition and Markets Authority
What are the Adjudicator's reporting requirements?
14Annual report
How is the Adjudicator supervised?
15Review of Adjudicator and guidance from Secretary of State
16Transfer of Adjudicator functions and abolition etc
17Information to Secretary of State
How does the Adjudicator handle information?
18Confidentiality
How may the Adjudicator be funded?
19Levy funding
20Payments by Secretary of State
Amendments and transition
21Amendments and transition
Definitions and final provisions
22Definitions
23Orders
24Extent
25Commencement
26Short title
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1The Adjudicator
Status
1The Adjudicator is a corporation sole.
2The Adjudicator carries out functions on behalf of the Crown....
Appointment
3The Adjudicator is to be appointed by the Secretary of...
Deputy Adjudicator
4The Secretary of State may appoint a Deputy Adjudicator.
5The Deputy Adjudicator may carry out any of the Adjudicator's...
Term of office etc
6A person holds and vacates office as the Adjudicator or...
7Service as the Adjudicator, or as the Deputy Adjudicator, is...
Remuneration
8(1) The Adjudicator may pay to or in respect of...
Staff
9(1) The Adjudicator may make arrangements with the Secretary of...
Conflicts of interest
10(1) The Adjudicator must make procedural arrangements for dealing with...
11(1) This paragraph applies if both the Adjudicator and the...
Validity of acts
12A defect in appointment does not affect the validity of...
Application of seal and proof of documents
13The application of the Adjudicator's seal must be authenticated by...
14A document purporting to be duly executed under the seal—...
Accounts
15(1) The Adjudicator must keep proper accounts and proper records...
Incidental powers
16The Adjudicator may do anything that is calculated to facilitate...
Assistance from Office of Fair Trading
17The Competition and Markets Authority may provide staff, premises, facilities...
Exemption from liability for damages
18(1) The following are exempt from liability in damages for...
SCHEDULE 2Information powers
1(1) The Adjudicator may, for the purposes of an investigation,...
2(1) It is an offence for a person intentionally to...
3It is an offence for a person knowingly to provide...
4A person guilty of an offence under this Schedule is...

Groceries Code Adjudicator Act 2013

2013 c. 19

An Act to set up a Groceries Code Adjudicator with the role of enforcing the Groceries Code and encouraging compliance with it.

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—