{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-73",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/digital-markets-competition-and-consumers-act-2024/section-73.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/73",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Use of interview statements in prosecution",
  "text": "(1) A statement by X in response to a requirement imposed by virtue of section 72 (a “section 72 statement”) may only be used in evidence against X—\n(a) on a prosecution for an offence under section 93 or 94;\n(b) on a prosecution for some other offence in a case falling within subsection (2).\n(2) A prosecution falls within this subsection if, in the proceedings—\n(a) in giving evidence, X makes a statement inconsistent with the section 72 statement, and\n(b) evidence relating to the section 72 statement is adduced, or a question relating to it is asked, by or on behalf of X.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 73 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 73 in force at 1.1.2025 by S.I. 2024/1226, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2024/13/section/73",
    "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."
}