{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998/schedule-10/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998/schedule-10/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/41",
  "legislation_title": "Competition Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996 is amended as follows.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) In Article 16, omit paragraph (2) (which falls with the repeal of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976).\n(4) In Article 18 (modification by order under other statutory provisions)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), omit sub-paragraph (b) and the “or” immediately before it;\n(b) in paragraph (3)—\n(i) after sub-paragraph (a), insert “ or ”;\n(ii) omit sub-paragraph (c) and the “or” immediately before it;\n(c) in paragraph (5), omit “or the 1980 Act”.\n(5) In Article 19 (orders for securing compliance), in paragraph (5), after sub-paragraph (b), omit “or” and after sub-paragraph (c), insert\n“or\n(d) that the most appropriate way of proceeding is under the Competition Act 1998.”\n(6) In Article 44(4) (general restrictions on disclosure of information)—\n(a) omit sub-paragraphs (f) and (g) (which refer to the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 and the Resale Prices Act 1976);\n(b) after sub-paragraph (u), add—\n“(v) the Competition Act 1998”.\n(7) At the end of Article 44, insert—\n“(8) Information obtained by the Director in the exercise of functions which are exercisable concurrently with the Director General of Fair Trading under Part I of the Competition Act 1998 is subject to sections 55 and 56 of that Act (disclosure) and not to paragraphs (1) to (7).”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 18(2) repealed (20.6.2003) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1398), art. 1, Sch. para. 32(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 18(5)(6) repealed (N.I.) (1.4.2003) by The Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/419), art. 1(2), Sch. 5; S.R. 2003/203, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 18(7) repealed (N.I.) (1.4.2003) by The Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/419), art. 1(2), Sch. 5; S.R. 2003/203, art. 2, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1976 c. 53."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 10 para. 18 partly in force; Sch. 10 para. 18 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 76(3); Sch. 10 para. 18(6)(b) in force at 11.1.1999 by S.I. 1998/3166, art. 2, Sch.; Sch. 10 para. 18(1)(2) in force at 1.4.1999 by S.I. 1999/505, art. 2, Sch. 2; Sch. 10 para. 18(3)-(5)(6)(a) and (7) in force at 1.3.2000 by S.I. 2000/344, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/41/schedule/10/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:18.972999+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."
}