Lyons had almost no broadcasting experience when he was put in charge of regulating the UK's biggest broadcaster last year.
The Pesticides Safety Directorate (pesticides.gov.uk) is the government agency in charge of regulating pesticide use: it also promotes sustainable farming.
For others it is an unsettling judgment on the institution in charge of regulating the world's international banking centre.
Putting Ofcom in charge of regulating the BBC is a great risk: its present incumbent, a distinguished civil servant, may be no threat.
Oil company Chevron has provided an all-expenses-paid day out at Wimbledon for Jim Campbell, the civil servant in charge of regulating Britain's oil and gas industry.
"We are going to arrest people involved who are in charge of regulating the boat's movement who failed to stop that boat from traveling at night," she said.
Each year, the agency in charge of regulating film allows only 20 foreign movies to potentially make a profit off their box office take here.
The government council in charge of regulating the monks, known as Ma Ha Na, has barred him from preaching, a ban he continues to ignore.
Last summer, the outgoing government passed a law putting the Federal Network Agency in charge of regulating the electricity market from next year.
In 1979, an obscure division of the U.S. Department of Labor in charge of regulating pension funds loosened something called the "prudent man rule," enabling funds to invest more aggressively, for higher returns.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, told skeptical lawmakers on Thursday that the Fed should be put in charge of regulating the nation's biggest financial institutions.
