SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4The Payment Systems Regulator

F1Engagement with Parliamentary Committees

Annotations:

14B

1

This paragraph applies where—

a

the Regulator issues a public consultation, and

b

a Committee of the House of Commons or the House of Lords, or a joint Committee of both Houses, has provided to the Regulator representations in response to the consultation.

2

For the purposes of this paragraph, the Regulator issues a public consultation if it publishes the draft of any proposals for the purpose of bringing them to the attention of the public (whether or not under a duty to do so imposed by an enactment).

3

The Regulator must give to the chair of the Committee concerned a written response to the representations.

4

The duty to respond imposed by sub-paragraph (3) applies only so far as the Regulator would not be under a corresponding duty to do so imposed by another enactment.

5

The Regulator is not required under sub-paragraph (3) to provide any information whose publication would in the opinion of the Regulator be against the public interest.