Section 14B References under section 14: powers of investigationF1F2

The following sections of Part 3 of the Enterprise Act 2002 shall apply, F3as they had effect immediately before the relevant date and with the modifications mentioned in subsections F4(1A), (2) and (3) below, for the purposes of references under section 14 above as they F5applied immediately before that date for the purposes of references under that Part—

Section 109 shall, in its application by virtue of subsection (1) above, have effect as if—

Section 110 shall, in its application by virtue of subsection (1) above, have effect as if—

Section 111(5)(b) shall, in its application by virtue of subsection (1) above, have effect as if for sub-paragraph (ii) there were substituted—

“(ii)

if earlier, the day on which the report of the CMA on the reference concerned is made or, if no such report is made within the period permitted for that purpose, the latest day on which the report may be made within the permitted period.”.

Provisions of Part 3 of the Enterprise Act 2002 which F10, immediately before the relevant date, had effect for the purposes of sections 109 to 116 of that Act (including, in particular, provisions relating to offences and the making of orders) shall, for the purposes of the application of those sections by virtue of subsection (1) above, have effect in relation to those sections as applied by virtue of that subsection F11as those provisions had effect immediately before that date.

Accordingly, corresponding provisions of this Act shall not have effect in relation to those sections as applied by virtue of that subsection.

In this section “the relevant date” means the date on which section 143 of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 came into force.