text: **Prosecutions**
  
  **21.**—(1) Proceedings for an offence under these Regulations, apart from an operator offence, 
  may be brought by the Crown Prosecution Service and any person designated by the Secretary of 
  State. 
  
  (2) Proceedings for an operator offence may be brought by an authorised person. 
  (3) In this regulation— 
  
  (a) “authorised person” means— 
  
  (i) in relation to passengers arriving by sea, the Secretary of State for Transport, 
  (ii) in relation to passengers arriving by air, the Civil Aviation Authority, 
  (iii) in relation to passenger arriving by rail, the Office of Rail and Road; 
  
  (b) “operator offence” means an offence— 
  
  (i) under regulation 19(7), 
  (ii) under regulation 19(13), 
  (iii) under regulation 19(14) (obstruction) in relation to a function relating to an offence 
  under regulation 19(7), or 
  
  (iv) under paragraph 2(1) or 3(1) of Schedule 13. 