{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998/schedule-12/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998/schedule-12/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/41",
  "legislation_title": "Competition Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-act-1998",
  "path": "schedule/12/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Fair Trading Act 1973 is amended as follows.\n(2) Omit section 4 and Schedule 3 (which make provision in respect of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission).\n(3) Omit—\n(a) section 10(2),\n(b) section 54(5),\n(c) section 78(3),\n(d) paragraph 3(1) and (2) of Schedule 8,\n(which fall with the repeal of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) Omit section 45 (power of the Director to require information about complex monopoly situations).\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(12) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(13) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(14) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(15) In section 135(1) (financial provisions)—\n(a) in the words before paragraph (a) and in paragraph (b), omit “or the Commission”; and\n(b) omit paragraph (a).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 1(4)-(7) repealed (20.6.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 26; S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 1(9) repealed (20.6.2003) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1398), art. 1, Sch. para. 32(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 1(10)-(13) repealed (29.12.2003) by The Enterprise Act 2002 and Media Mergers (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/3180), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 6(2) (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 1(14) repealed (20.6.2003) by Enterprise Act 2002 (c. 40), s. 279, Sch. 26; S.I. 2003/1397, art. 2(1), Sch. (with art. 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1976 c. 34."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 12 para. 1 wholly in force; Sch. 12 para. 1 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 76(3); Sch. 12 para. 1(14) in force at 11.1.1999 by S.I. 1998/3166, art. 2, Sch.; Sch. 12 para. 1(1)(2)(9)-(13)(15) in force at 1.4.1999 by S.I. 1999/505, art. 2, Sch. 2; Sch. 12 para. 1(3)(a)(b)(d) in force at 10.11.1999 by S.I. 1999/2859, art. 2; Sch. 12 para. 1(3)(c)(4)-(8) in force at 1.3.2000 by S.I. 2000/344, art. 2, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/40",
      "affecting_title": "Enterprise Act 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/40",
      "affecting_title": "Enterprise Act 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2002/40",
      "affecting_title": "Enterprise Act 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/41/schedule/12/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}