Part 3Mergers
Chapter 5Supplementary
Investigation powers
F1116AIntentional destruction etc of documents
(1)
A person (“P”) commits an offence if the person intentionally alters, suppresses or destroys any document which P has been required to produce by a notice under section 109.
(2)
But P does not commit an offence under subsection (1) by reason of any act or omission if the CMA has proceeded against P under section 110(1) or (1A) in relation to that act or omission.
(3)
A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) is liable—
(a)
on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;
(b)
on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to a fine or to both.
(4)
In this section—
(a)
the reference to the production of a document includes a reference to the production of a legible and intelligible copy of information recorded otherwise than in legible form;
(b)
the reference to suppressing a document includes a reference to destroying the means of reproducing information recorded otherwise than in legible form.