{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-323",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-323.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/323",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "323",
  "heading": "Notifications in respect of requests for investigative assistance",
  "text": "(1) R must notify the Secretary of State that R has received a request for assistance from O where—\n(a) R considers that it would be appropriate for R to assist O, and\n(b) the Secretary of State has not given R a general authorisation to provide O with the assistance requested (see section 322(2)(b)).\n(2) But subsection (1) does not apply where O’s request is made under or in accordance with a qualifying cooperation arrangement.\n(3) R must notify O as to whether R will be providing the assistance requested and, where relevant, of any conditions imposed on that assistance (see section 322(6)).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 323 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 323 in force at 1.1.2025 by S.I. 2024/1226, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/section/323",
    "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."
}