Extract from Commons consideration of the Draft Breaching Of Limits On Ticket Sales Regulations 2018 - May 21
Tuesday, 22 May 2018 08:07
The Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries (Margot
James):...The draft regulations will, we hope, significantly
improve the existing situation in which so many tickets for an
event can disappear within seconds of them going on sale. The
regulations should be seen alongside other measures that we are
taking to address that behaviour in the ticketing market, such as
the ticket information requirements set out under the recently
strengthened Consumer Rights Act 2015; the enforcement...Request free trial
The Minister for Digital and the Creative Industries
(Margot James):...The draft regulations will, we hope,
significantly improve the existing situation in which so many
tickets for an event can disappear within seconds of them going on
sale. The regulations should be seen alongside other measures that
we are taking to address that behaviour in the ticketing market,
such as the ticket information requirements set out under the
recently strengthened Consumer Rights Act 2015; the enforcement
work of National Trading Standards, the Competition and Markets
Authority and the advertising industry’s own regulator, the
Advertising Standards Authority; and adoption by event organisers
and ticketing agencies of technological solutions such
as Blockchain and ticketless tickets...
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