{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1980/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1980/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/21",
  "legislation_title": "Competition Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1980",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "General provisions as to reports.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) For the purposes of the law relating to defamation, absolute privilege shall attach to any report of the CMA ... under this Act.\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 16(1) repealed (20.6.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 10(5)(a), Sch. 26; S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 16(2) substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 6 para. 6; S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 16(2) repealed (20.6.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 10(5)(b), Sch. 26; S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 16(3) repealed (1.3.2000) by 1998 c. 41, ss. 74(1)(3), Sch. 12 para. 4(6), Sch. 14 Pt. I (with s. 73); S.I. 2000/344, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/21/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:16:08.750293+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}