{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-and-regulatory-reform-act-2013/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/enterprise-and-regulatory-reform-act-2013/section-33.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": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Power of CMA to make cross-market references",
  "text": "(1) Section 131 of the 2002 Act (power to make market investigation references) is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (2) insert—\n“(2A) In a case where the feature or each of the features concerned falls within subsection (2)(b) or (c), a reference under subsection (1) may be made in relation to more than one market in the United Kingdom for goods or services.”\n(3) In subsection (4)(a), for “section 156(1)” substitute “ section 156(A1) or (1) ”.\n(4) In subsection (6)—\n(a) before the definition of “market in the United Kingdom” insert—\n““cross-market reference” means a reference under this section which falls within subsection (2A) or a reference under section 132 which falls within subsection (3A) of that section (and see section 140A);”, and\n(b) after the definition of “market investigation reference” insert—\n““ordinary reference” means a reference under this section or section 132 which is not a cross-market reference (and see section 140A);”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 33 in force at 1.4.2014 by S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(b) (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/24/section/33",
    "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."
}