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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2751",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Office of Fair Trading’s Rules) Order 2004",
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  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), these Rules apply when the OFT takes investigation or enforcement action under the Act in relation to any one or more of the Chapter I prohibition, the Chapter II prohibition, the prohibition in Article 81(1) and the prohibition in Article 82.\n(2) Rule 11 on the cancellation etc. of an individual exemption, rule 12 on the cancellation etc. of a parallel exemption, rule 14 on the withdrawal of an exclusion, rule 15 on the termination of the transitional period and rule 16 on the application for extension of the transitional period apply only when the OFT takes investigation or enforcement action in relation to the Chapter I prohibition or the Chapter II prohibition.\n(3) Rule 13 on the withdrawal of the benefit of a regulation of the Commission pursuant to Article 29(2) of the EC Competition Regulation applies only when the OFT takes investigation or enforcement action in relation to the prohibition in Article 81(1).",
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