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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-19/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2024/13",
  "legislation_title": "Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024",
  "path": "schedule/19/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“commencement date” means the date on which section 153 comes into force;\n“continuing conduct” means an act or omission of a person that—\n(a) takes place before the commencement date, and\n(b) is repeated, or continues to take place, on or after that date;\n“enforcement action”—\n(a) in relation to the new law, means proceedings or other steps taken by virtue of a power conferred under the new law, and\n(b) in relation to the old law, means proceedings or other steps taken by virtue of a power conferred under the old law;\n“the new law” means Chapters 3 and 4 of Part 3 (and any provisions of law relating to those Chapters, including Schedule 5 to CRA 2015 as amended by this Act);\n“the old law” means—\n(a) Part 8 of EA 2002, as that Part had effect immediately before the commencement date, and\n(b) any provisions of law (including in particular Schedule 5 to CRA 2015) relating to Part 8 of EA 2002, as those provisions had effect immediately before the commencement date.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 19 para. 1 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 19 para. 1 in force at 6.4.2025 by S.I. 2025/272, reg. 2(1)(10)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/19/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:35:09.592730+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."
}