{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002-merger-prenotification-regulations-2003/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002-merger-prenotification-regulations-2003/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2003/1369",
  "legislation_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Merger Prenotification) Regulations 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002-merger-prenotification-regulations-2003",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Time at which a merger notice is to be treated as received",
  "text": "A merger notice given under section 96(1) of the Act shall be treated as having been received by the OFT—\n(a) subject to paragraph (b), on the day on which it is in fact received by the OFT;\n(b) where it is received by the OFT on any day which is not a working day or after 5.00 pm on any working day, on the next working day,\nand section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 shall not apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1978 c. 30."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2014/549",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2014"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2003/1369/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T06:23:42.477023+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."
}