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Paragraph 2A IntroductionF1F2

This Part applies where a foreign power would (apart from this Part of this Schedule) be able to control or influence the policy of a person (a “newspaper owner”) carrying on a newspaper enterprise for the purposes of section 70A by virtue of condition 1 or condition 2 in paragraph 1 (respectively, “the shares condition” and “the voting rights condition”).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 6B inserted (24.5.2024) by Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (c. 13), s. 339(2)(a), Sch. 7 para. 3 (with s. 130(2)(3))

F2

Sch. 6B Pt. 1A inserted (retrospective to 13.3.2024) by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Mergers Involving Newspaper Enterprises and Foreign Powers) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/922), regs. 1(3), 2(3)