Paragraph 11 I1

Section 55 (orders for securing compliance) is amended as follows.

After subsection (5) insert—

“(5ZA)

The Authority shall not make a final order, or make or confirm a provisional order, in relation to a licence holder or person under closure restrictions unless—

(a)

it has given notice to the Regulator specifying a period within which he may give notice to it if he considers that the most appropriate way of proceeding is under the M1Competition Act 1998;

(b)

that period has expired; and

(c)

the Regulator has not given notice to the Authority within that period that he so considers (or, if he has, he has withdrawn it).”

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

In subsection (11), for “(5A)” substitute “ (5ZA) ”.