SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12 Minor and consequential amendments

The Competition Act 1980

12

(1)

In section 11 of the M1Competition Act 1980, in subsection (3) (public bodies and other persons who may be the subject of a reference to the Monopolies Commission under that section), after paragraph (a) there shall be inserted—

“(aa)

any publicly owned railway company, within the meaning of the Railways Act 1993, which supplies network services or station services, within the meaning of Part I of that Act; or”.

(2)

In subsection (2) of section 19 of that Act (which provides that the general restriction, in subsection (1) of that section, on the disclosure of information obtained under or by virtue of that Act does not apply in relation to the performance by certain authorities of their functions under the provisions listed in subsection (3) of that section) in paragraph (a), after the words “the Director General of Electricity Supply for Northern Ireland" (which were inserted by paragraph 21(a) of Schedule 12 to the M2Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992) there shall be inserted the words “ the Rail Regulator ”.

(3)

In subsection (3) of that section (list of provisions referred to in subsection (2) of that section) after the paragraph (n) inserted by paragraph 28 of Schedule 20 to the M3Broadcasting Act 1990 there shall be added—

“(o)

the Railways Act 1993”.