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53. Orders under section 52: procedural requirements

(1) If the Secretary of State proposes to make a sectoral regulator order, the Secretary of State must carry out the first stage consultation.

(2) The first stage consultation is consultation with -

(a) the regulator whose functions would be removed by the order,

(b) the Competition and Markets Authority,

(c) where the regulator is the Office of Rail and Road, the Scottish Ministers,

(d) where the regulator is the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment in Northern Ireland and the Department for Regional Development in Northern Ireland, and

(e) where the regulator is the Water Services Regulation Authority, the Welsh Ministers.

(3) If (following the first stage consultation) the Secretary of State still proposes to make a sectoral regulator order, the Secretary of State must carry out the second stage consultation.

(4) The second stage consultation is consultation with -