# Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1977 (repealed 1.3.2000), Section 3: Information agreements as to goods.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1 ) In 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 Restrictive 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 Restrictive 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/19/section/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/restrictive-trade-practices-act-1977-repealed-132000/section-3
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