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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-commencement-no-5-order-2000/schedule",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/344",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Commencement No. 5) Order 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-commencement-no-5-order-2000",
  "path": "schedule",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "PROVISIONS OF THE COMPETITION ACT 1998 COMING INTO FORCE ON 1ST MARCH 2000",
  "text": "Provisions of the Act\nPurpose\nSection 1(b) to (d) (enactments repealed)\nFor all purposes\nSection 2 (the Chapter I prohibition)\nFor all purposes\nSection 3(1)(b)\nFor all remaining purposes\nSection 4 (individual exemptions)\nFor all purposes\nSection 5 (cancellation etc. of individual exemptions)\nFor all purposes\nSection 6 (block exemptions)\nFor all purposes\nSection 7 (block exemptions: opposition)\nFor all purposes\nSection 8 (block exemption: procedure)\nFor all purposes\nSection 9 (exemption criteria)\nFor all purposes\nSection 10 (parallel exemptions)\nFor all purposes\nSection 11 (exemption for certain agreements)\nFor all purposes\nSection 12(1) and (2) (requests for Director to examine agreements)\nFor all purposes\nSection 13 (notification for guidance)\nFor all purposes\nSection 14 (notification for a decision)\nFor all purposes\nSection 15 (effect of guidance)\nFor all purposes\nSection 16 (effect of decisions)\nFor all purposes\nSection 17 (enactments replaced)\nFor all purposes\nSection 18 (Chapter II prohibition)\nFor all purposes\nSection 20 (requests for Director to consider conduct)\nFor all purposes\nSection 21 (notification for guidance)\nFor all purposes\nSection 22 (notification for a decision)\nFor all purposes\nSection 23 (effect of guidance)\nFor all purposes\nSection 24 (effect of a decision)\nFor all purposes\nSections 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 31 (powers of investigation and decisions following investigations)\nFor all purposes\nSections 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 37 (enforcement)\nFor all purposes\nSection 38(8) to (10) (level of penalties)\nFor all purposes\nSections 39 and 40 (limited immunity)\nFor all purposes\nSection 41 (agreements notified to Commission)\nFor all purposes\nSections 42 to 44 (offences)\nFor all purposes\nSection 46, 47, 49(1), (2) and (4) (appeals)\nFor all purposes\nSection 54(1) (regulators)\nFor all purposes\nSection 54(2) and (3)\nFor all remaining purposes\nSection 55(1) to (5), (7) and (8) and 56 (confidentiality of information)\nFor all purposes\nSection 58 (findings of fact by Director)\nFor all purposes\nSections 61 to 65 (investigations in relation to Articles 81 and 82 EC)\nFor all purposes\nSection 70 (contracts as to patented products)\nFor all purposes\nSection 72 (offences by bodies corporate)\nFor all purposes\nSection 73 (Crown application)\nFor all purposes\nSection 74 (amendments, transitional provisions, savings and repeals)\nIn so far as it relates to the provisions in Schedule 10 brought into force by this Order\nSchedule 2 (exclusions: competition scrutiny under other statutes) paragraphs 1 to 5\nFor all purposes\nSchedule 5 (procedure for notification under Chapter I) paragraphs 1 to 6\nFor all purposes\nSchedule 6 (procedure for notification under Chapter II) paragraphs 1 to 6\nFor all purposes\nSchedule 8 (appeals) paragraphs 2 to 4\nFor all purposes\nSchedule 10 (regulators) paragraphs 9(3), (4), (6), (7)(a) and (8), 10(3) to (5), (6)(a) and (7), 11(a), 12(3) to (5), (7)(a) and (8), 13(2), (4) to (7), (9) and (10)(a), 14(a), 15(3) to (8), (9)(a) and (10), 16, 17(3) to (5), (7)(a), (8) and (9), 18(3) to (5), (6)(a) and (7)\nFor all purposes\nSchedule 10 paragraphs 2 to 8\nFor all remaining purposes\nSchedule 11 (interpretation of section 55)\nFor all purposes\nSchedule 12 (minor and consequential amendments) paragraphs 1(3)(c), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), 2, 3(a), 4(2), (4) to (8), (10), (13) to (15), 5, 6(b), 7(3) to (5), 8, 9, 10(a), 11, 12, 13, 14(2), 16, 17, 18(a), 19, 20(3) to (6) and 21\nFor all purposes\nSchedule 13 (transitional provisions and savings) paragraphs 8 to 10, 12(2), 13 to 18, 19(1) and (2), 20 to 34 and 36 to 39 and 42 to 46\nFor all purposes\nSchedule 13 paragraph 12(1)\nFor all remaining purposes\nIn Part I of Schedule 14 (repeals) the entries relating to section 78(3) of the Fair Trading Act 1973, the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976, the Resale Prices Act 1976, the Energy Act 1976, the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1977, the Patents Act 1977, the Estate Agents Act 1979, sections 2 to 10, 11(8), 13(1), 15, 16(3), 17, 19(3), 19(5)(a), 25 to 30, 31 and 33(3) and (4) of the Competition Act 1980, the Telecommunications Act 1984, the Airports Act 1986, the Gas Act 1986, the Financial Services Act 1986, the Consumer Protection Act 1987, the Channel Tunnel Act 1987, the Road Traffic (Consequential Provisions) Act 1988, the Water Act 1989, the Electricity Act 1989, the Companies Act 1989, the Broadcasting Act 1990, the Water Industry Act 1991, the Water Resources Act 1991, the Osteopaths Act 1993, the Railways Act 1993, the Chiropractors Act 1994, the Coal Industry Act 1994, the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994, and the Broadcasting Act 1996 and in Part II the entries relating to the Magistrates' Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981, the entry relating to the Competition Act 1980 in Schedule 8 of the Agricultural Marketing (Northern Ireland) Order 1982, the Companies Consolidation (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992, the Airports (Northern Ireland) Order 1994, and the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996\nFor all purposes",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Articles 85 and 86 of the Treaty establishing the European Community were renumbered 81 and 82 as a result of the Treaty signed at Amsterdam on 2nd October 1997 amending the Treaty on European Union, the Treaties establishing the European Communities and certain related Acts."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1973 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1976 c. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1976 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1976 c. 76."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1977 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1979 c. 38."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1980 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "1984 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "1986 c. 31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "1986 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "1986 c. 60."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "1987 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f15",
      "text": "1987 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f16",
      "text": "1988 c. 54."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f17",
      "text": "1989 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f18",
      "text": "1989 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f19",
      "text": "1989 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f20",
      "text": "1990 c. 42."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f21",
      "text": "1991 c. 56."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f22",
      "text": "1991 c. 57."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f23",
      "text": "1993 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f24",
      "text": "1993 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f25",
      "text": "1994 c. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f26",
      "text": "1994 c. 21."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f27",
      "text": "1994 c. 40."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f28",
      "text": "1996 c. 55."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f29",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f30",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1080 (N.I. 12)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f31",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/1035 (N.I. 9)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f32",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/231 (N.I. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f33",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/426 (N.I. 1)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f34",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2)."
    }
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