PART 3Abolition of the Competition Commission
Amendments of the 1998 Act
218The 1998 Act is amended as follows.
219In the heading of Chapter 4 of Part 1, omit “The Competition Commission and”.
220Omit section 45 (establishment of Competition Commission) and the cross- heading preceding it.
221In section 59 (interpretation of Part 1), in subsection (1), in the definition of “the Commission”, omit “(except in relation to the Competition Commission)”.
222Omit Schedule 7 (Competition Commission).
223Omit Schedule 7A (Competition Commission: procedural rules for mergers and markets refinances).
Amendments of the 2002 Act
224The 2002 Act is amended as follows.
225Omit sections 185 to 187 (the Competition Commission).
226In Schedule 3 (the Competition Service), omit Part 2 (transfers of property etc between the Competition Commission and the Competition Service).
227Omit Schedule 11 (the Competition Commission).
228Omit Schedule 12 (Competition Commission: certain procedural rules).