The Secretary of State may by regulations apply any provision of this Act which relates to investigations of offences conducted by police officers to investigations of labour market offences conducted by labour abuse prevention officersenforcement officers.
The regulations may apply provisions of this Act with any modifications specified in the regulations.
In this section "labour abuse prevention officer" means an officer of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority who—
An officer of the Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority falls within this subsection if he or she is—
The investigations for the purposes of which provisions of this Act may be applied by regulations under this section include investigations of offences committed, or suspected of having been committed, before the coming into force of the regulations or of this section.
Regulations under this section are to be made by statutory instrument.
Regulations under this section may make—
Regulations under subsection (4)(e) may, in particular, make such provision amending, repealing or revoking any enactment as the Secretary of State considers appropriate in consequence of any provision made by the regulations.
A statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (4)(e) may not be made unless a draft of the instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.
Any otherA statutory instrument containing regulations under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
In this section—
"enactment" includes an enactment contained in subordinate legislation within the meaning of the Interpretation Act 1978;
"labour market offence" has the meaning given in section 3 of the Immigration Act 2016.
In this section—
"enforcement officer" has the meaning given by section 90(3) of the Employment Rights Act 2025;
"labour market offence" has the same meaning as in Part 5 of that Act (see section 151(1) of that Act).