{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/schedule-5/paragraph-10",
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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/5/paragraph/10",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) In Chapter 3 of Part 3 of EA 2002 (mergers: other special cases), Schedule 5A (energy network mergers affecting comparative regulation: modifications of Chapter 1 of Part 3) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph 1 (general modifications), in sub-paragraph (2), for the words after “include” substitute\n“—\n(a) a reference made under a subsection of that section;\n(b) a reference treated as made under that section.”\n(3) For paragraph 5 (time limits for decisions about references) substitute—\n“5 Section 34ZA (time-limits for decisions about references) has effect as if—\n(a) in subsection (1)(a)—\n(i) the reference to section 22(2) were to section 68B(2);\n(ii) the reference to section 22(3) were to section 68B(3);\n(iii) the reference to section 33(2) were to section 68C(2);\n(iv) the reference to section 33(3) were to section 68C(3);\n(b) section (1A) were omitted.\n5A Chapter 1 has effect as if sections 34ZD to 34ZF (fast-track reference requests) were omitted.”\n(4) After paragraph 7 insert—\n“Time-limits for investigations and reports\n7A Section 39 (time-limits for investigations and reports) has effect as if subsection (3A) were omitted.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 10 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 10 in force at 1.1.2025 by S.I. 2024/1226, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(11) (with Sch. paras. 5(2), 20)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/schedule/5/paragraph/10",
    "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."
}