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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-competition-and-markets-authoritys-rules-order-2014/schedule/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/458",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Competition and Markets Authority's Rules) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-competition-and-markets-authoritys-rules-order-2014",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Delegation of functions",
  "text": "(1) There is to be a relevant person who oversees the investigation under the Act and who is to decide whether notice of a proposed infringement decision under rule 5 is given.\n(2) Subject to rule 9(4) there is to be a different relevant person from the relevant person referred to in paragraph (1), who has not been involved in the investigation, who decides whether any supplementary notice of a proposed infringement decision under rule 5 is given, whether to make an infringement decision under rule 10 and whether to impose a penalty under rule 11.\n(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2) the different relevant person must comprise at least two relevant persons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. modified (31.12.2020) by S.I. 2019/93, Sch. 4 para. 8C(4) (as inserted by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1343), regs. 1(1), 37(2))"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/458/schedule/paragraph/3",
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  "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."
}