The Merger Reference (Universal Foods Corporation and Pointing Holdings Limited) (Interim Provision) Order 1999

Statutory Instruments

1999 No. 2560

MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS

The Merger Reference (Universal Foods Corporation and Pointing Holdings Limited) (Interim Provision) Order 1999

Made

13th September 1999

Laid before Parliament

13th September 1999

Coming into force

13th September 1999

Whereas:

(1) The Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred on him by sections 64 and 69(2) of the Fair Trading Act 1973(1) has on 17th August 1999 referred to the Competition Commission for investigation and report the matter of enterprises carried on by or under the control of Universal Foods Corporation ceasing to be distinct from enterprises carried on under the control of Pointing Holdings Limited;

(2) Warner Jenkinson Europe Limited is a subsidiary of Universal Foods Corporation; and

(3) In the opinion of the Secretary of State the exercise of the powers as set out in this Order is required with a view to preventing action which might prejudice the reference or impede the taking of any action under the said Act which might be warranted by the Commission’s report on the reference:

Now therefore the Secretary of State with a view to preventing the doing of things which might prejudice the reference or impede the taking of any action under the said Act and in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 74 and 90 of the said Act hereby makes the following Order:

(1)

1973 c. 41.