7(1)Paragraph 20B (investigations managed or carried out by Commission: action by appropriate authority) is amended as follows.
(2)For sub-paragraphs (3) and (4) (action to be taken where special conditions are satisfied) substitute—
“(3)If the appropriate authority determines that the special conditions are satisfied then, unless it considers that the circumstances are such as to make it inappropriate to do so, it shall—
(a)certify the case as a special case for the purposes of regulations under section 50(3) or 51(2A) of the 1996 Act; and
(b)take such steps as are required by those regulations in relation to a case so certified.”
(3)Omit sub-paragraph (5) (appropriate authority to notify DPP if special conditions are satisfied).