Michael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

While the amendment of section 3 made by Dáil Éireann involves the replacement of the existing section in its entirety, sections 3(a) and (c) are similar to the corresponding provisions in the Bill passed by this House. Section 3(b) is new and will provide that contraventions of the requirement to provide information on the expiry date or period of a gift voucher will come within the scope of section 85 of the Consumer Protection Act 2007 on fixed payment notices. Contraventions of other information requirements in that Act and of information requirements in other consumer protection legislation can be the subject of fixed payment notices, and it is appropriate that contraventions of information provisions in the Bill can be dealt with in a similar way. 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 with by means of summary proceedings.