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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-4/paragraph-25",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2019/93",
  "legislation_title": "The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/25",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Intervention to protect legitimate interests: no European intervention notice before IP completion",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies in a case in which immediately before IP completion day—\n(a) a concentration has been examined by the European Commission under the EC Merger Regulation and the EU merger decision has been taken in relation to the concentration;\n(b) the conditions specified in section 67(1) of the 2002 Act are met in relation to the concentration concerned; and\n(c) the Secretary of State has not made a decision to give an intervention notice under section 67(2) of the 2002 Act.\n(2) The old legitimate interests law continues to have effect on and after IP completion day in relation to the concentration concerned except that the conditions in section 67(1)(a)(ii), (b) and (c) are treated as being met on and after IP completion day.\n(3) In this paragraph “the old legitimate interests law” means—\n(a) sections 67 and 68 of the 2002 Act;\n(b) the Enterprise Act 2002 (Anticipated Mergers) Order 2003 without the modification made by paragraph 6(2) of Schedule 2 to these Regulations; and\n(c) the 2003 Order.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 25(1) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1343), regs. 1(1), 51(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 25(1)(c) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1343), regs. 1(1), 51(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 25(2) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1343), regs. 1(1), 51(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 25(2) substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1343), regs. 1(1), 51(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 25 heading substituted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1343), regs. 1(1), 51(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2003/1595, to which there is an amendment not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 25 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/93/schedule/4/paragraph/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:48:49.787679+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."
}