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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-concurrency-regulations-2000/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2000/260",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Concurrency) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-concurrency-regulations-2000",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations make provision for the Director General of Fair Trading and the regulators who can exercise functions of the Director under Part I the Competition Act 1998 concurrently with him to co-ordinate the performance of those functions.\nRegulation 3 provides for the Director and regulators to circulate information for the purposes of determining which of their number may exercise Part I functions in relation to a case.\nRegulation 4 provides that all applications for guidance or a decision as to whether a Chapter I or Chapter II prohibition have been infringed shall be submitted to the Director.\nRegulation 5 sets out the steps which must be taken before a competent person exercises prescribed functions (as defined in regulation 2) in relation to a case.\nRegulation 6 provides the procedure for determining which competent person is to exercise prescribed functions in a particular case when agreement has not been reached on this issue in accordance with regulation 5.\nRegulation 7 makes provision for the circumstances in which the exercise of prescribed functions by a competent person in relation to a case precludes the exercise of those functions by another competent person.\nRegulation 8 makes provision for a competent person who has exercised Part I functions (as defined in regulation 2) in relation to a case to transfer that case to another competent person.\nRegulation 9 makes provision for the appointment of an officer of one competent person to act as the officer of another competent person in relation to a case.\nRegulation 10 makes provision for the service of notices.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/260/note",
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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."
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