Appeal from decisions after preliminary hearings of allegations of behaviour damaging to a competitorU.K.
28.—(1) Regulation 27 shall apply in relation to appeals from decisions of the Authority after preliminary hearings of allegations of behaviour damaging to a competitor as it applies in relation to any other case but with the modifications herein set out.
(2) Those modifications are—
(a)in paragraph (1) the reference to every party shall be taken as a reference to the applicant and the respondent;
(b)in paragraph (3) the reference in subparagraph (c) to each of the parties shall be taken as a reference to the applicant or respondent, as the case may be, and the reference in subparagraph (d) to regulation 25(2) shall be taken as a reference to regulation 24(6);
(c)in paragraph (4) the first reference to 21 days shall be taken as a reference to 5 working days and the reference to the decision date shall be taken as a reference to the date upon which the Authority furnished reasons for its decision; and all the subsequent words in that paragraph (which relate to a request for a transcript and a time from the transcript date) shall be deleted;
(d)in paragraph (6) the reference to 14 days shall be taken as a reference to 5 working days;
(e)in paragraph (7) the reference to 28 days shall be taken as a reference to 8 working days;
(f)n paragraph (8) for “within 14 days after the expiry of the period of 28 days” there shall be substituted “within 4 working days after the expiry of the period of 8 working days”.