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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-29/paragraph-4",
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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/29/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "The Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation",
  "text": "In Article 29 of the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/3336 (N.I. 21)) (functions of the Northern Ireland Authority for Utility Regulation with respect to competition), after paragraph (10) insert—\n“(11) In making any decision, or otherwise taking action, for the purposes of any of its functions that—\n(a) by virtue of this Article, are functions exercisable concurrently with the CMA, and\n(b) in the case of functions under the Competition Act 1998, are functions within Schedule 4A to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 by virtue of paragraph 5 of that Schedule,\nthe Authority must have regard to the need for making a decision, or taking action, as soon as reasonably practicable.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 29 para. 4 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 29 para. 4 in force at 1.1.2025 for specified purposes by S.I. 2024/1226, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "Sch. 29 para. 4 in force at 6.4.2025 for specified purposes by S.I. 2025/272, reg. 2(1)(13)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/29/paragraph/4",
    "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."
}