{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-64A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980/section-64A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1980/46",
  "legislation_title": "Solicitors (Scotland) Act 1980",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/solicitors-scotland-act-1980",
  "path": "section/64A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "64A",
  "heading": "Advisory and supervisory functions of the Competition and Markets Authority .",
  "text": "(1) Before considering any rule—\n(a) made under section 25A(4) or (5)...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nthe Secretary of State shall send a copy of the proposed rule in question to the CMA .\n(2) The CMA shall consider whether the rule in question would have, or would be likely to have, the effect of restricting, distorting or preventing competition to any significant extent.\n(3) When the CMA has completed its consideration, the CMA shall give such advice to the Secretary of State as it thinks fit.\n(4) The CMA may publish advice given under subsection (3).\n(5) The CMA shall, so far as practicable, exclude from anything published under subsection (4) any matter—\n(a) which relates to the affairs of a particular person; and\n(b) the publication of which would, or might in the CMA's opinion, seriously and prejudicially affect the interests of that person.\n(6) For the purposes of the law of defamation, the publication of any advice or report by the CMA under this section shall be absolutely privileged.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 64A–64D inserted (3.6.1991) by Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1990 (c. 40, SIF 76:2), s.43; S.I. 1991/1252, art. 3, Sch.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "S. 64A(1)(b) and word repealed (2.7.2012) by Legal Services (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 16), ss. 124(2)(b), 150(2); S.S.I. 2012/152, art. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 64A(1)(2) substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 6 para. 11(2); S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 64A(3) substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 6 para. 11(3)(a); S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 64A(3) substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 6 para. 11(3)(b); S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 64A(4) substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 6 para. 11(4); S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 64A(5) substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 6 para. 11(5)(a); S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Word in s. 64A(5) substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 6 para. 11(5)(b); S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Word in s. 64A(6) substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 6 para. 11(6); S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in s. 64A heading substituted (1.4.2014) by Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), s. 103(3), Sch. 6 para. 11(7); S.I. 2014/416, art. 2(1)(d) (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1980/46/section/64A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:15:15.254365+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."
}