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The Fair Trading Act (Amendment) (Newspaper mergers) Order 1995

S.I. 1995/1351 · Made 23 May 1995

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MONOPOLIES AND MERGERS

Made 23rd May 1995

Laid before Parliament 23rd May 1995

Coming into force 13th June 1995

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 58(5) of the Fair Trading Act 1973f1, hereby makes the following Order:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

1973 c. 41.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1

This Order may be cited as the Fair Trading Act (Amendment) (Newspaper mergers) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 13th June 1995.

2

In section 58(4) of the Fair Trading Act 1973, for “25,000” there shall be substituted “50,000”.

Signature

Jonathan Evans,

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Corporate and Consumer Affairs,

Department of Trade and Industry

23rd May 1995

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order increases the threshold below which the Secretary of State has a discretion to give his consent to a newspaper merger requiring his consent without referring the matter to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission for investigation and report.