{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1980/section-31",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1980/section-31.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/21",
  "legislation_title": "Competition Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1980",
  "path": "section/31",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31",
  "heading": "Orders and regulations.",
  "text": "(1) Any power of the Secretary of State to make orders ... under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) Any statutory instrument containing ... an order under section . . ., 11(4) , 11D or 12(3) or (5) above , or section 111(4) or (6) or 114(3)(b) or (4)(b) of the Enterprise Act 2002 as applied by section 11B(1)(c) or (f) above, shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Any power of the Secretary of State to make an order under this Act —\n(a) may be exercised so as to make different provision for different cases or different purposes; and\n(b) includes power to make such incidental, supplementary, consequential, transitory, transitional or saving provision as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(1) repealed (20.6.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 10(8)(a), Sch. 26; S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 31(2) repealed (1.3.2000) by 1998 c. 41, s. 74(1)(3), Sch. 12 para. 4(14)(a), Sch. 14 Pt. I (with s. 73)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(3) repealed (20.6.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 10(8)(b)(i), Sch. 26; S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 31(3) repealed (1.3.2000) by 1998 c. 41, s. 74(1)(3), Sch. 12 para. 4(14)(b), Sch. 14 Pt. I (with s. 73)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 31(3) inserted (20.6.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 10(8)(b)(ii); S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 31(3) inserted (20.6.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 10(8)(b)(iii); S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "S. 31(4) repealed (20.6.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 10(8)(c), Sch. 26; S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "S. 31(5) inserted (20.6.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 10(8)(d); S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/21/section/31",
    "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."
  }
}