{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-and-regulatory-reform-act-2013/schedule-8/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-and-regulatory-reform-act-2013/schedule-8/paragraph-5.json",
  "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/8/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 39 (time-limits for investigations and reports) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (5) for “subsection (4)” substitute “ this section ”.\n(3) After subsection (8) insert—\n“(8A) In the case of a report on a reference under section 33, the CMA may provide that a specified period of no more than 3 weeks is to be disregarded for the purposes of any time-limit for the preparation and publication of the report which applies by virtue of this section if—\n(a) a relevant person has so requested before the end of the period of 3 weeks beginning with the date of the reference concerned; and\n(b) the CMA reasonably believes that the arrangements in question might be abandoned.\n(8B) If the CMA exercises the power under subsection (8A), the CMA shall publish a notice to that effect.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 8 para. 5 in force at 1.4.2014 by 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/2013/24/schedule/8/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}