{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-134",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-134.json",
  "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": "section/134",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "134",
  "heading": "Market studies: removal of time-limit on pre-reference consultation",
  "text": "(1) Chapter 1 of Part 4 of EA 2002 (market studies and market investigations: references) is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 131B (market studies and the making of decisions to refer: time-limits) omit subsections (1) to (3).\n(3) In section 131C (time-limits under section 131B: supplementary)—\n(a) in subsection (1) omit paragraph (a);\n(b) in subsection (2) omit paragraph (a) and the “or” after it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 134 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 134 in force at 1.1.2025 by S.I. 2024/1226, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(2) (with Sch. paras. 6, 20)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/section/134",
    "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."
}