Background
Primary Authority is where a business can form a legal partnership with a local authority who will deal with regulatory compliance issues. Primary Authority was established by the Regulatory and Enforcement Sanctions Act 2008.
Eligibility
Any business, charity or other organisation that satisfies the criteria can join the scheme. A business must either:
- be regulated by two or more local authorities for relevant functions; or
- have arrangements in place to share an approach to compliance with at least one other business, provided that the businesses are collectively regulated by more than one local authority for relevant function.
Relevant function could be for example, fair trading, food safety, health & safety or age restricted sales etc. Find more information on Primary Authority.
The scheme doesn't allow Primary Authorities to make a profit from these partnerships so the Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) audits all partnerships. Manchester's current hourly rate is £80. This rate is reviewed on an annual basis.
Further information and getting in touch
If you would like further information on developing a partnership with us please email us:
- Trading Standards trading_standards@manchester.gov.uk
- Environmental Health contact@manchester.gov.uk
- Housing contact@manchester.gov.uk