Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 Explanatory Notes

Section 88: Redress schemes: supplemental

580.Subsections (1) to (4) make provision in relation to the order making powers of the Secretary of State under sections 83 (Redress schemes: lettings agency work); 84 (redress schemes: property management work) and 87 (Approval of redress schemes for the purposes of section 83 or 84).

581.Subsection (5) clarifies that nothing in sections 83 to 87 prevents a redress scheme from: providing for membership by persons who are not subject to the duty to belong to a scheme; investigating and determining complaints not covered by the duty, where members have voluntarily chosen to accept the jurisdiction of the scheme; or excluding complaints from the scheme in specified cases or circumstances.

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