C1SCHEDULECompetition and Markets Authority's Competition Act 1998 Rules
C1Procedural complaints8
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Complaints about the procedures followed during the course of an investigation under the Act may be made to a Procedural Officer. The Procedural Officer, who, other than in acting as Procedural Officer under this rule or rule 6, must not have been involved in the investigation, is to consider a significant procedural complaint where that complaint has not been determined or settled by the relevant person overseeing the investigation to the satisfaction of a complainant.
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The Procedural Officer must give notice to the person who made the complaint of the decision in respect of the complaint within 20 working days.
3
The Procedural Officer may extend the period to give notice of the decision in respect of the complaint by no more than 20 working days if the Procedural Officer considers that there are special reasons why the notice of the decision in respect of the complaint cannot be given within the period under paragraph (2).
Sch. modified (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/93, Sch. 4 para. 8C(4) (as inserted by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1343), regs. 1(1), 37(2))