(1) Section 30 of the Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008 (inspection plans) is amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (3) insert -

"(3A) An inspection plan may require a local authority other than the primary authority, on exercising the function of inspection in relation to the regulated person, to provide the primary authority with a report on its exercise of the function."

(3) In subsection (7) -

(a) for the words from the beginning to "exercising" substitute "Where the primary authority exercises";

(b) after "regulated person" insert ", it".

(4) After subsection (7) insert -

"(7A) A local authority other than the primary authority may not exercise the function of inspection in relation to the regulated person otherwise than in accordance with a plan that has been brought to its notice under subsection (6), unless -

(a) it has notified the primary authority in writing of the way in which it proposes to exercise the function in relation to the regulated person, and

(b) the primary authority has notified the local authority in writing that it consents to the authority's exercising the function in that way.