The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 U.K.

57.—(1) Section 144 (powers exercisable in consequence of report of Competition Commission)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) for “, the Office of Fair Trading or (as the case may be) the Competition Commission” substitute “or (as the case may be) the Competition and Markets Authority”;

(b) after “147(2)” insert “, 147A(2)”; and

(c) for “Commission” substitute “Competition and Markets Authority”.

(3) In subsection (3), for “, the Office of Fair Trading or (as the case may be) the Competition Commission” substitute “or (as the case may be) the Competition and Markets Authority”.

(4) In the heading, for “Monopolies and Mergers Commission” substitute “Competition and Markets Authority”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. 1 para. 57 in force at 1.4.2014, see art. 1(1)

(1)

By virtue of section 45(4) of the Competition Act 1998 the reference to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in the heading to section 144 has effect as a reference to the Competition Commission. Section 144 was also amended by Schedule 25 to the Enterprise Act 2002.