{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/competition-amendment-etc-eu-exit-regulations-2019/schedule-4/paragraph-27",
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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/27",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies in a case in which immediately before IP completion day—\n(a) the Secretary of State has given a notice to the CMA under section 67(2) of the 2002 Act in relation to a European relevant merger situation; and\n(b) the matter to which the notice relates has not been finally determined in accordance with article 3 of the 2003 Order; ...\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) The old legitimate interests law continues to have effect on and after IP completion day in connection with the matter to which the notice relates except that in section 68(2) of the 2002 Act—\n(a) the reference to “EU law” includes a reference to “relevant separation agreement law” within the meaning of section 7C of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act 2020; and\n(b) the reference to the EC Merger Regulation has the meaning given by paragraph 18.\n(3) In this paragraph, “the old legitimate interests law” has the same meaning as in paragraph 25.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 27(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), 54(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 27(1)(a) inserted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1343), regs. 1(1), 54(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 27(1)(c) omitted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by virtue of The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1343), regs. 1(1), 54(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 27(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), 54(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 27(2) inserted (31.12.2020 immediately before IP completion day) by The Competition (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1343), regs. 1(1), 54(3)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 27 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/27",
    "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."
}