Section 3 Information agreements as to goods.

United Kingdom

(1 C1)

C2In section 7 of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 (information agreements as to goods) the following shall be inserted after subsection (3):—

“(3A)
An order under this section may specify matters (in addition to those mentioned in section 9) whivh are to be disregarded in determining whether an agreement is one to which this Act applies by virtue of the order.”

(2)

Section 5 of the M1Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1968 (which was replaced by section 7 of the Act of 1976) shall be deemed to have been enacted with a corresponding addition, and accordingly the amendment made by subsection (1) above shall be deemed to have had effect from the commencement of the Act of 1976.

(3)

The M2Restrictive Trade Practices (Information Agreements) Order 1969 (which was made under the Act of 1968 and now has effect as if made under, and as referring to provisions of, the Act of 1976) shall have effect and be deemed always to have had effect as if it had been made with the addition of the Article set out in Part II of the Schedule to this Act.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1968 c. 66.
M2: S.I. 1969/1842.

Modifications

C1: “A corresponding addition” means a provision corresponding to s. 7(3A) inserted in Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 (c. 34) by s. 3(1) of this Act
C2: The text of s. 3(1) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: Act repealed (1.3.2000) by 1998 c. 41, ss. 1(b), 74(2)(3), Sch. 14 Pt. I (with s. 73, Sch. 13); S.I. 2000/344, art. 2, Sch.