Article 2 Designation of authorities and specification of functions

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art.2 amended by Competition Act 1998 (Competition Commission) Transitional, Consequential and Supplemental Provisions 1999 art.27
art. 2(b) words substituted by Competition Act 1998 (Competition Commission) Transitional, Consequential and Supplemental Provisions 1999 art. 27
art. 2(a)(vi) word revoked by Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) 2003 Sch. para. 11(2)(a)
art. 2(a)(viii) and word inserted by Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) 2003 Sch. para. 11(2)(a)
art. 2(b) words substituted by Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) 2003 Sch. para. 11(2)(b)

For the purposes of section 180 of the Financial Services Act 1986,

(a)

the Director General of Fair Trading is designated as an authority in relation to his functions under:

(i)

the Fair Trading Act 1973^f1 (other than Part II of that Act);

(ii)

the Consumer Credit Act 1974^f2;

(iii)

the Estate Agents Act 1979^f3;

(iv)

the Control of Misleading Advertisements Regulations 1988^f4;

(v)

the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976^f5; and

(vi)

the Competition Act 1980^f6; and

(b)

the Monopolies and Mergers Commission are designated as an authority in relation to their functions under the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1973 c. 41.
f2: 1974 c. 39.
f3: 1979 c. 38.
f4: S.I. 1988/915; these regulations were made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 (c. 68) to implement Council Directive No. 84/450/EEC (OJ No. L250, 19.9.84, p.17) relating to misleading advertising;
f5: 1976 c. 34.
f6: 1980 c. 21.