Enterprise Act 2002

16 Transfers of certain proceedings to and from Tribunal U.K.

(1) The Lord Chancellor may by regulations—

(a) make provision enabling the court—

(i) to transfer to the Tribunal for its determination so much of any proceedings before the court as relates to an infringement issue; and

(ii) to give effect to the determination of that issue by the Tribunal; and

(b) make such incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitional or saving provision as the Lord Chancellor may consider appropriate.

(2) The power to make regulations under subsection (1) is exercisable by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

(3) Rules of court may prescribe the procedure to be followed in connection with a transfer mentioned in subsection (1).

(4) The court may transfer to the Tribunal, in accordance with rules of court, so much of any proceedings before it as relates to a claim to which section 47A of the 1998 Act applies.

(5) Rules of court may make provision in connection with the transfer from the Tribunal to the [F1 court of all or any part of] a claim made in proceedings under section 47A of the 1998 Act.

(6) In this section—

• “the court” means—

  (a)

  the High Court [F2 or the county court]; or

  (b)

  the Court of Session or a sheriff court; and

• [F3 “infringement issue” means any question relating to whether or not an infringement of the Chapter I prohibition or the Chapter II prohibition has been or is being committed;]

but otherwise any terms used in this section and Part 1 of the 1998 Act have the same meaning as they have in that Part.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in s. 16(5) substituted (3.8.2015 for specified purposes, 1.10.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Consumer Rights Act 2015 (c. 15), s. 100(5), Sch. 8 para. 21; S.I. 2015/1584, art. 3(c); S.I. 2015/1630, art. 3(j)

F2 Words in s. 16(6) inserted (22.4.2014) by virtue of Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 9 para. 81(a); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(c) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)

F3 Words in s. 16(6) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/93), regs. 1(1), 33 (with Sch. 4 paras. 7, 13) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1343, regs. 1(1), 35-59); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)