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79. Appeals to Competition and Markets Authority

(1) This section applies where a person is appealing to the Competition and Markets Authority ("the CMA") against a CMA-appealable decision.

(2) In determining the appeal the CMA must have regard, to the same extent as is required of the Payment Systems Regulator, to the matters to which the Payment Systems Regulator must have regard in discharging its functions under this Part.

(3) In determining the appeal the CMA -

(a) may have regard to any matter to which the Payment Systems Regulator was not able to have regard in relation to the decision, but

(b) must not, in the exercise of that power, have regard to any matter to which the Payment Systems Regulator would not have been entitled to have regard in reaching its decision had it had the opportunity of doing so.

(4) The CMA must either -

(a) dismiss the appeal, or

(b) quash the whole or part of the decision to which the appeal relates.

(5) The CMA may act as mentioned in subsection (4)(b) only to the extent that it is satisfied that

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