Scotland Act 1998 Explanatory Notes

Reservation

What is reserved is the regulation of anti-competitive practices and agreements; abuse of dominant position; monopolies and mergers.  This includes all matters relating to that regulation, including:

(a)

the powers to investigate any body or person for the purposes of enforcing competition law;

(b)

the administration of competition law through the respective powers of the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, the Director General of Fair Trading and any other authority exercising competition functions.

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