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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-concurrency-regulations-2000/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-concurrency-regulations-2000/regulation-7.json",
  "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": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Avoidance of double jeopardy",
  "text": "(1) Where two or more competent persons may have concurrent jurisdiction in relation to a case, no competent person shall exercise any prescribed functions in relation to that case before agreement has been reached in accordance with regulation 5(3) or a determination has been made in accordance with regulation 6(3)(a) above as to which competent person is to exercise prescribed functions in relation to a case.\n(2) Subject to regulation 8 below, once agreement has been reached in accordance with regulation 5(3) or a determination has been made in accordance with regulation 6(3)(a) above as to which competent person is to exercise prescribed functions in relation to a case, no other competent person shall exercise any of the prescribed functions in relation to that case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/260/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:21:30.426191+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."
}