Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024

330 Interpretation

In this Act—

• “CA 1998” means the Competition Act 1998;

• “CRA 2015” means the Consumer Rights Act 2015;

• “EA 2002” means the Enterprise Act 2002;

• “ERRA 2013” means the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013;

• “the CMA” means the Competition and Markets Authority;

• “the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act);

• “digital content” means data which is produced and supplied in digital form;

• “enactment” means an enactment whenever passed or made and includes—

  (a)

  an enactment contained in any Order in Council, order, rules, regulations, scheme, warrant, byelaw or other instrument made under an Act,

  (b)

  an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under, an Act of the Scottish Parliament,

  (c)

  an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under, a Measure or Act of Senedd Cymru,

  (d)

  an enactment contained in, or in an instrument made under, Northern Ireland legislation, and

  (e)

  any assimilated direct legislation;

• “firm” means any entity, whether or not a legal person, that is not an individual and includes a body corporate, a corporation sole and a partnership or other unincorporated association;

• “United Kingdom national” means—

  (a)

  a British citizen, a British overseas territories citizen, a British National (Overseas) or a British Overseas citizen;

  (b)

  a person who is a British subject under the British Nationality Act 1981;

  (c)

  a British protected person within the meaning of that Act;

• “working day” means any day other than—

  (a)

  a Saturday or Sunday, or

  (b)

  a day that is a bank holiday in any part of the United Kingdom under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.