{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-protection-from-misleading-marketing-regulations-2008/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2008/1276",
  "legislation_title": "The Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/business-protection-from-misleading-marketing-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Co-ordination",
  "text": "(1) If more than one enforcement authority in Great Britain is contemplating bringing proceedings under regulation 15 in any particular case, the CMA may direct which enforcement authority is to bring the proceedings or decide that only it may do so.\n(2) Where the CMA directs that only it may bring such proceedings it may take into account whether compliance with regulation 3, 4 or 5 could be achieved by other means in deciding whether to bring proceedings.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17(1) substituted (14.11.2013) by The Business Protection from Misleading Marketing (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2701), regs. 1, 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 17 substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/549), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 34(6) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/1276/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:31:01.117720+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}