After paragraph 12 of Schedule 7 to the 1998 Act (the Competition Commission) there is inserted—
“Annual reports12A(1)The Commission shall make to the Secretary of State a report for each financial year on its activities during the year.
(2)The annual report must be made before the end of August next following the financial year to which it relates.
(3)The Secretary of State shall lay a copy of the annual report before Parliament and arrange for the report to be published.”
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]