Article 8 Savings relating to existing references and investigations to the Competition Commission under various regulatory statutes

The commencement of the provisions of Schedules 11, 25 and 26 shall not have effect in relation to any reference that is made (or, in the case of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000^f1, any investigation that is commenced) before the 20th June 2003 under any of the following provisions—

(a)

section 11 of the Competition Act 1980^f2;

(b)

section 13 of the Telecommunications Act 1984^f3;

(c)

section 43 of the Airports Act 1986^f4;

(d)

section 24 or 41E of the Gas Act 1986^f5;

(e)

section 12 or 56C of the Electricity Act 1989^f6;

(f)

Schedule 4 to the Broadcasting Act 1990^f7;

(g)

section 12 or 14 of the Water Industry Act 1991^f8;

(h)

Article 15 of the Electricity (Northern Ireland) Order 1992^f9;

(i)

section 13 of, or Schedule 4A to, the Railways Act 1993^f10;

(j)

Article 34 of the Airports (Northern Ireland) Order 1994^f11;

(k)

Article 15 of the Gas (Northern Ireland) Order 1996^f12;

(l)

section 15 of the Postal Services Act 2000^f13;

(m)

section 162 or 306 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000; and

(n)

section 12 of the Transport Act 2000^f14.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 2000 c. 8.
f2: 1980 c. 21.
f3: 1984 c. 12.
f4: 1986 c. 31.
f5: 1986 c. 44.
f6: 1989 c. 29.
f7: 1990 c. 42.
f8: 1991 c. 56.
f9: S.I. 1992/231 (N.I. 1).
f10: 1993 c. 43.
f11: S.I. 1994/426 (N.I. 1)
f12: S.I. 1996/275 (N.I. 2)
f13: 2000 c. 26.
f14: 2000 c. 38.