The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Interpretation

4.—(1) In this Part of this Schedule—

“investigation” means an investigation under section 25 of the 1998 Act;

“domestic element”, in relation to an investigation, means any part of the investigation conducted by virtue of section 25(2), (4) or (6) of the 1998 Act;

“EU element”, in relation to an investigation, means any part of the investigation conducted by virtue of section 25(3), (5) or (7) of the 1998 Act;

(2) References in this Part of this Schedule to cases in which the CMA is conducting an investigation at a particular time include cases in which the CMA would be conducting such an investigation but for section 31B(2)(1) of the 1998 Act (suspension of investigation where commitments given under section 31A(2) of that Act).

(3) References in this Part of this Schedule to the CMA are to be read as including a reference to a regulator (as defined in section 54 of the 1998 Act(3)).

(1)

Section 31B(2) was inserted by S.I. 2004/1261 and subsequently amended by paragraphs 1 and 12 of Schedule 5 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.

(2)

Section 31A was inserted by S.I. 2004/1261 and subsequently amended by paragraphs 1 and 12 of Schedule 5 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.

(3)

Section 54 was amended by paragraph 38(1) and (41) of Schedule 25 to the Enterprise Act 2002, section 371(5) of the Communications Act 2003, section 51(1) to (4) of, paragraphs 1 and 33 of Schedule 5 to, and paragraphs 8 and 11 of Schedule 15 to, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, paragraph 32(1) and (2) of Schedule 7 to the Water Act 2003 (c. 37), section 74(5) of the Health and Social Care Act 2012, section 67(2) of and paragraph 9 of Schedule 8 to the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c. 33), and by S.I. 2015/1682 and S.I. 2004/1261.