{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-and-regulatory-reform-act-2013/schedule-4/paragraph-12",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/24",
  "legislation_title": "Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-and-regulatory-reform-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/4/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The CMA must prepare an annual plan for each financial year.\n(2) The plan must—\n(a) set out the CMA's main objectives for the year and indicate the relative priorities of each of those objectives;\n(b) provide a summary of the proposed allocation of the CMA's financial resources to the activities to be carried on in connection with those objectives.\n(3) The CMA must arrange for the plan to be laid before —\n(a) Parliament,\n(b) the Scottish Parliament,\n(c) Senedd Cymru, and\n(d) the Northern Ireland Assembly\n(4) The CMA must publish the plan, in whatever way it considers appropriate, before the start of the financial year in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 12(3)(a)-(d) substituted for word in Sch. 4 para. 12(3) (20.9.2021) by United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (c. 27), ss. 40(2), 59(3) (with s. 55(2)); S.I. 2021/1062, reg. 2(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 4 para. 12 in force at 1.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/2227, art. 2(j) (with art. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/24/schedule/4/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:12.713580+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."
}