{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002/section-68E",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002/section-68E.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/40",
  "legislation_title": "Enterprise Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-act-2002",
  "path": "section/68E",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "68E",
  "heading": "Combined references",
  "text": "(1) In respect of a relevant merger situation involving an energy network merger, the CMA may—\n(a) make a reference under both section 22 and section 68B, or\n(b) make a reference under both section 33 and section 68C.\n(2) If the CMA does so—\n(a) the references may be decided by the same group constituted under Schedule 4 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013;\n(b) the functions of the CMA referred to in section 34C(1) and (2) may be carried out on behalf of the CMA by the same group in relation to both references; and\n(c) the group’s duties under section 38 to prepare and publish a report on each reference may be satisfied by preparing and publishing a single report on both references.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 68A-68F and cross-heading inserted (26.10.2023) by Energy Act 2023 (c. 52), s. 334(2)(j), Sch. 16 para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/40/section/68E",
    "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."
  }
}