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Version date: 27 September 2023 - onwards
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4. Amendment of section 3 of Principal Act

Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended -

(a) by the insertion of the following definitions in subsection (1):

"'Act of 2002' means the Communications Regulation Act 2002;

'Act of 2014' means the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014;

'Article 16(1) periodic penalty payment' has the meaning assigned to it in section 15AD;

'Article 16(2) periodic penalty payment' has the meaning assigned to it in section 15AD;

'administrative sanctions' means the following sanctions imposed by an adjudication officer under Part 2D -

(a) structural or behavioural remedies,

(b) administrative financial sanctions under section 15AA, or

(c) periodic penalty payments,

and 'administrative sanctions proceedings' shall be interpreted accordingly;

'breach of a procedural requirement' refers to any of the following contraventions by an undertaking, or by an association of undertakings, of an obligation or requirement imposed by a competent authority in connection with an investigation under Part 2C:

(a) obstructing or impeding the exercise by -

(i) an authorised officer, within the meaning of the Act of 2014, of a power referred to in section 37 or 37A of that Act, or