{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/41",
  "legislation_title": "Competition Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) To the extent to which conduct (either on its own or when taken together with other conduct)—\n(a) results in any two enterprises ceasing to be distinct enterprises for the purposes of Part V of the 1973 Act Part 3 of the 2002 Act), or\n(b) is directly related and necessary to the attainment of the result mentioned in paragraph (a),\nthe Chapter II prohibition does not apply to that conduct.\n(2) Section 65 of the 1973 Act Section 26 of the 2002 Act applies for the purposes of this paragraph as it applies for the purposes of paragraph 1.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 2(1)(a) substituted (20.6.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2004 in so far as not already in force) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 38(50)(b)(i); S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with arts. 3(1), 8); S.I. 2004/3233, art. 2, Sch. (with arts. 3-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 1 para. 2(2) substituted (20.6.2003 for specified purposes, 29.12.2004 in so far as not already in force) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 25 para. 38(50)(b)(ii); S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with arts. 3(1), 8); S.I. 2004/3233, art. 2, Sch. (with arts. 3-5)"
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/41/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
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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."
}