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Competition

Made 7th February 2011

Laid before Parliament 7th February 2011

Coming into force 28th February 2011

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6(2) and (7) of the Competition Act 1998^f1 (“the Act”), makes the following Order:

In July 2010, in accordance with section 8(1) and (4) of the Act, the Office of Fair Trading (“the OFT”) published details of its proposed recommendation to the Secretary of State that the Competition Act 1998 (Public Transport Ticketing Schemes Block Exemption) Order 2001^f2 be amended. The OFT considered the representations which were made to it and, in accordance with section 8(3) of the Act, has recommended that the Secretary of State vary that Order.

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Footnotes

f1: 1998 c. 41. Sections 6 and 8 were amended by the Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), section 278(1) and Schedule 25, paragraph 38.
f2: S.I. 2001/319, as amended by S.I. 2005/3347.