{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002/section-106A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002/section-106A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/40",
  "legislation_title": "Enterprise Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002",
  "path": "section/106A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "106A",
  "heading": "Advice and information in relation to media mergers",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may prepare and publish general advice and information about the considerations specified in section 58(2A) to (2C).\n(2) The Secretary of State may at any time publish revised, or new, advice or information.\n(3) Advice or information published under this section shall be prepared with a view to—\n(a) explaining the considerations specified in section 58(2A) to (2C) to persons who are likely to be affected by them; and\n(b) indicating how the Secretary of State expects this Part to operate in relation to such considerations.\n(4) Any advice or information published by the Secretary of State under this section shall be published in such manner as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.\n(5) In preparing any advice or information under this section, the Secretary of State shall consult the CMA, OFCOM and such other persons as he considers appropriate.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 106A inserted (29.12.2003) by Communications Act 2003 (c. 21), ss. 383, 411(2)(3) (with transitional provisions in Sch. 18); S.I. 2003/3142, art. 3(1), Sch. 1 (subject to arts. 3(3), 11)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 106A(5) substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 5 para. 139 (with s. 28); S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/40/section/106A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:50.931325+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}