This amendment involves the replacement in its entirety of section 3 of the Bill as initiated. Acceptance of the amendment involves accordingly the deletion of section 3 of the Bill.

Sections 3(a) and 3(c) are similar to the corresponding provisions in the Bill as initiated. Section 3(b) is new. The purpose of this addition is to bring offences involving contraventions of the requirement on traders to provide information on the expiry date or period of gift vouchers within the scope of section 85 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007 on fixed payment notices. It is appropriate that contraventions of information requirements relating to gift vouchers should, like contraventions of other information requirements in the 2007 Act and in other consumer legislation, be capable, where appropriate, of being the subject of fixed payment notices. It will be for the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to decide in the circumstances of a particular contravention whether a fixed payment notice is appropriate or whether the contravention should instead be dealt by means of summary proceedings.