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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990/schedule-4/paragraph-20",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/1990/41",
  "legislation_title": "Courts and Legal Services Act 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/courts-and-legal-services-act-1990",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/20",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The OFT shall consider whether making the alterations would have, or be likely to have, any significant effect on competition.\n(2) The Secretary of State and the authorised body shall provide the OFT with such additional information as it may reasonably require.\n(3) When the OFT has completed its consideration itshall give such advice to the Secretary of State as it thinks fit.\n(4) The OFT shall publish any advice given by it under this paragraph.\n(5) The OFTshall, so far as practicable, exclude from anything published under sub-paragraph (4) any matter which relates to the affairs of a particular person (other than the authorised body) the publication of which would, or might in its opinion, seriously and prejudicially affect the interests of that person.\n(6) Section 46 shall apply in relation to the investigation of any matter with a view to its consideration under this paragraph as it applies in relation to the investigation of any matter under section 45.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 substituted (1.1.2000) by 1999 c.22, s. 41, Sch. 5 para. 2 (with Sch. 14 para. 7(2)); S.I. 1999/3344, art. 2(a) (subject to art. 4, Sch. 2 of that S.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 4: \"OFT\" substituted (1.4.2003) in each place for \"Director\" by 2002 c. 40, ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 23(10)(a); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Schs. 3-6 substituted (19.8.2003) by The Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1887), art. 9, Sch. 2 para. 8(1)(d) (with arts. 6, 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 20(2) substituted (1.4.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 23(10)(d)(i); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 4 para. 20(3) substituted (1.4.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 23(10)(d)(ii); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 20(4) substituted (1.4.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 23(10)(d)(iii); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in Sch. 4 para. 20(5) substituted (1.4.2003) by 2002 c. 40, ss. 278, 279, Sch. 25 para. 23(10)(d)(iv); S.I. 2003/766, art. 2, Sch. (with art. 3)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:42:54.699974+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."
}