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Schedule 9 Markets: cross-market references

Section 34(4)

1 Part 4 of the 2002 Act (market investigations) is amended as follows.

2

(1) Section 133 (contents of references) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1) -

(a) omit the "and" following paragraph (b),

(b) in paragraph (c), at the beginning insert "in the case of an ordinary reference,", and

(c) after paragraph (c) insert "; and

(d) in the case of a cross-market reference, the feature or features concerned and the descriptions of goods or services to which it or they relate."

(3) In subsection (2) -

(a) in paragraph (a), after "a supply" insert "or, in the case of a cross-market reference, supplies", and

(b) in paragraph (b), after "an acquisition" insert "or, in the case of a cross-market reference, acquisitions".

3

(1) Section 134 (questions to be decided on market investigation references) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1), for "a market investigation" substitute "an ordinary".

(3) After subsection (1) insert -

"(1A) The CMA shall, on a cross-market refe

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