(1) Part 5 of the Financial Services Act 2012 (inquiries and investigations) is amended as follows.
(2) After section 76 insert -
"76A Duty of Payment Systems Regulator to investigate and report on possible regulatory failure
(1) Subsection (3) applies where it appears to the Payment Systems Regulator that -
(a) events have occurred in relation to a regulated payment system which had or could have had a significant adverse effect on effective competition in the interests of -
(i) participants in the payment system, or
(ii) those who use, or are likely to use, the services provided by the payment system, and
(b) those events might not have occurred, or the adverse effect might have been reduced, but for a serious failure in -
(i) the system established by Part 5 of the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 for the regulation of payment systems, or
(ii) the operation of that system.
(2) Subsection (3) also applies where the Treasury direct the Payment Systems Regulator that it app
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