# The Competition Act 1998 (Director’s rules) Order 2000, Paragraph 18: Interim measures


(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, if the Director proposes to give a direction under section 35, he shall give each person to whom he proposes to give the direction a reasonable opportunity to inspect the documents in that Director’s file relating to the proposed direction.
(2) The Director may withhold any document:
(a) to the extent that it contains information which a person has stated to that Director to be, and which that Director has found to be, confidential, in the sense given to that word by sub-paragraph (1)(c) of rule 30 below;
(b) which is, in the opinion of that Director, otherwise confidential; or
(c) which is internal, in the sense given to that word by sub-paragraph (1)(f) of rule 30 below.
(3) Where the Director gives a direction to a person under section 35, he shall at the same time inform that person in writing of the facts on which he bases the direction and his reasons for giving it.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/293/schedule/paragraph/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998-directors-rules-order-2000/schedule/paragraph-18
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