Enterprise Act 2002

[F1 34ZD Fast-track reference requests U.K.

(1) Subsection (2) applies where the following conditions are met—

(a) arrangements or proposed arrangements might have resulted or might result in the creation of a relevant merger situation (the “arrangements concerned”),

(b) no reference has been made under section 22 or 33 in respect of the arrangements concerned, and

(c) the CMA has not informed the persons carrying on the enterprises concerned of a decision that the duty to make a reference under section 22(1) or 33(1) does not apply in respect of those arrangements.

(2) The persons carrying on the enterprises concerned may make a fast-track reference request to the CMA at any time before the end of the initial period (whether or not that period has begun).

(3) In this section and in sections 34ZE and 34ZF, “fast-track reference request” means a request that the CMA makes a reference under section 22(1A) or 33(1A) in relation to the arrangements concerned.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 34ZD-34ZF inserted (1.1.2025) by Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (c. 13), s. 339(1), Sch. 5 para. 7; S.I. 2024/1226, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(11) (with Sch. paras. 5(2), 20)