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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ec-competition-law-articles-88-and-89-enforcement-regulations-1996/regulation-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ec-competition-law-articles-88-and-89-enforcement-regulations-1996/regulation-11.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2199",
  "legislation_title": "The EC Competition Law (Articles 88 and 89) Enforcement Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/ec-competition-law-articles-88-and-89-enforcement-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Functions of the MMC on reference of a practice",
  "text": "(1) On a reference under regulation 5 the MMC shall investigate and report on the questions —\n(a) whether the practice which is the subject of the reference is being carried on or has been carried on;\n(b) whether that practice infringes or has infringed Article 86;\n(c) whether any qualifying undertaking is carrying on or has carried on the practice;\n(d) whether the infringement of Article 86 has had an effect on competition in the United Kingdom and, if so, what are those effects.\n(2) Where, during an investigation on a reference under regulation 5, it appears to the MMC that a practice similar in form and effect to the practice which is the subject of the reference may be being carried on or may have been carried on by a qualifying undertaking and that the United Kingdom may have a duty to rule on that practice under Article 88, the MMC may investigate and report on that practice as if it had been the subject of the reference.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/506",
      "affecting_title": "The Competition Act 1998 (Competition Commission) Transitional, Consequential and Supplemental Provisions Order 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2199/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:36:21.785949+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."
}