{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merger-fees-regulations-1990/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merger-fees-regulations-1990/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1660",
  "legislation_title": "The Merger (Fees) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/merger-fees-regulations-1990",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Merger (Fees) Regulations 1990 and shall come into force on 1st October 1990.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n(a) “the Act” means the Fair Trading Act 1973;\n(b) a reference to a numbered Regulation shall be construed as a reference to the Regulation bearing that number in these Regulations.\n(3) These Regulations shall be construed as one with Part V of the Act and as if sections 67 and 77 of the Act applied for the purpose of construing these Regulations.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 41"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1660/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:08:49.829639+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."
}