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  Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of Estate Agent Regulatino to Powys Trading Standards
  
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  @ MP voted aye to abolish the National Consumer Council and to transfer the regulation of estate agencies from the Office of Fair Trading to Powys trading standards. 
  @ MP voted no against abolishing the National Consumer Council and against transferring the regulation of estate agencies from the Office of Fair Trading to Powys trading standards. 
  
  The majority of MPs vote to abolish the National Consumer Council and to transfer the regulation of estate agencies from the Office of Fair Trading to Powys trading standards. 
  
  The explanatory memorandum to the regulation[1] summarise its key effects as being:
  
  
  * To abolish the National Consumer Council and transfer relevant functions to citizens advice services. 
  
  * To transfer the Office of Fair Tradingâs estate agency regulation functions to Powys trading standards. (Powys trading standards were appointed through a competitive exercise to become the centre of excellence on estate agency enforcement)
  
  * To transfer some of the Office of Fair Tradingâs consumer advice services to citizens advice services. 
  
  
  The text of the approved motion was:
  
  :That the draft [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111106723/contents Public Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading's Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014], which was laid before this House on 5 December 2013, be approved.
  
  
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  * [1] [http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2014/9780111106723/pdfs/ukdsiem_9780111106723_en.pdf Explanatory memorandum to the ublic Bodies (Abolition of the National Consumer Council and Transfer of the Office of Fair Trading's Functions in relation to Estate Agents etc) Order 2014]
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