Article 21 Application for leave under an order or undertakingC1

Northern Ireland

F1(1)

On the hearing of an application for leave for the purposes of Article 3(1)(a) or 4(1)(a), the Department shall appear and call the attention of the High Court to any matters which seem to the Department to be relevant, and may give evidence or call witnesses.

F2(2)

Paragraph (1) does not apply to an application for leave for the purposes of Article 3(1)(a) if the application for the disqualification order was made under Article 13A.

(3)

In such a case and in the case of an application for leave for the purposes of Article 13B(4) on the hearing of the application whichever of the F3CMA or a specified regulator (within the meaning of Article 13E) applied for the order or accepted the undertaking (as the case may be)—

(a)

must appear and draw the attention of the Court to any matters which appears to it to be relevant;

(b)

may give evidence or call witnesses.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 2005 NI 9
F2: 2005 NI 9
F3: Word in art. 21(3) substituted (1.4.2014) by The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/892), art. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 231 (with art. 3)

Modifications

C1: Art. 21 applied by S.I. 1989/638, reg. 20(2) (as inserted (1.10.2009) by European Economic Interest Grouping (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2399)), {reg. 21(4)} (with reg. 2))