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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-26/paragraph-7",
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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/26/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Criterion 7: information for parties",
  "text": "(1) The ADR provider or, as the case may be, any other ADR provider with whom it makes special ADR arrangements keeps the parties to a dispute informed about the conduct and progress of any ADR being carried out.\n(2) The action to be taken includes notifying the parties promptly in writing of the outcome of the ADR and, where applicable, of the grounds on which any decision has been reached.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 26 para. 7 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 26 para. 7 in force at 6.4.2026 by S.I. 2026/284, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(4)"
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/26/paragraph/7",
    "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."
}