{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-and-other-enactments-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-and-other-enactments-amendment-regulations-2004/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/1261",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Act 1998 and Other Enactments (Amendment) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-and-other-enactments-amendment-regulations-2004",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 1998 Act” means the Competition Act 1998 ;\n“the appointed day” means the 1st May 2004;\n...\n“the OFT” means the Office of Fair Trading; and\n“the Treaty” means the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/93), reg. 1(1), Sch. 2 para. 11(2) (with Sch. 4 paras. 7, 13) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1343, regs. 35-59); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.8.2012) by The Treaty of Lisbon (Changes in Terminology or Numbering) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/1809), art. 2(1), Sch. Pt. 2 (with art. 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1998 c. 41."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/1261/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:26:29.610274+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."
}