{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-175",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-175.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/175",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "175",
  "heading": "Evidence",
  "text": "(1) Proceedings under this Chapter are civil proceedings for the purposes of—\n(a) section 11 of the Civil Evidence Act 1968 (convictions admissible as evidence in civil proceedings);\n(b) section 10 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968 (corresponding provision in Scotland);\n(c) section 7 of the Civil Evidence Act (Northern Ireland) 1971 (c.36 (N.I.)) (corresponding provision in Northern Ireland).\n(2) In proceedings under this Chapter any finding by a court in civil proceedings that a person has engaged in infringing conduct—\n(a) is admissible as evidence that the conduct has occurred;\n(b) unless the contrary is proved, is sufficient evidence that the conduct has occurred.\n(3) But subsection (2) does not apply to any finding—\n(a) which has been reversed on appeal;\n(b) which has been varied on appeal so as to negate it.\n(4) For the purposes of subsection (2), a person engages in “infringing conduct” if—\n(a) the person has engaged in a commercial practice that constitutes a relevant infringement, or\n(b) the person is an accessory to such a practice.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 175 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 175 in force at 6.4.2025 by S.I. 2025/272, reg. 2(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/section/175",
    "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."
}