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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-enterprise-act-2002-definition-of-newspaper-order-2025/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348273175",
  "legislation_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Definition of Newspaper) Order 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-enterprise-act-2002-definition-of-newspaper-order-2025",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment to section 44 of the Enterprise Act 2002",
  "text": "(1) Section 44 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (investigation and report by CMA) is amended as follows.\n(2) For subsection (10) substitute—\n“(10) In this Part, “newspaper” means a publication which—\n(a) consists of, or includes, news-related material which is subject to editorial control;\n(b) is published on any periodic basis; and\n(c) is connected with the United Kingdom.\n(10A) For the purposes of subsection (10)—\n(a) “news-related material” means—\n(i) news or information about current affairs; or\n(ii) opinion about matters relating to the news or current affairs;\n(b) news-related material contained in a publication is subject to editorial control if the publisher of the publication has editorial or equivalent responsibility for—\n(i) the content of the material (which may include commissioning it);\n(ii) how the material is presented; and\n(iii) the decision to first publish the material;\n(c) a publication is not to be treated as consisting of, or including, news-related material if the news-related material contained in the publication—\n(i) is included only incidentally to the main content of the publication; or\n(ii) relates wholly to a particular pastime, hobby, trade, business, industry or profession;\n(d) “publication” means a publication which is—\n(i) online; or\n(ii) in hard copy,\nand references to “publish” or a “publisher” are to be construed accordingly;\n(e) a reference to a publication being published on any periodic basis includes, in relation to an online publication, a reference to it being updated on any periodic or other recurring basis;\n(f) a publication is connected with the United Kingdom if—\n(i) the majority of its readership is in the United Kingdom;\n(ii) the majority of editorial decisions about the publication are taken in the United Kingdom; or\n(iii) the registered or principal office of the publisher of the publication is in the United Kingdom.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348273175/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:56.455341+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."
}