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Section 382: General information duties in relation to media mergers

Communications Act 2003 · 2003 c. 21View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 5: Competition in communications markets — Chapter 2: Media mergers

Section 105 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (general information duties of OFT and Competition Commission) shall be amended as follows.

After subsection (1) there shall be inserted—

In subsection (2) (exclusion for merger notices) for the words "Subsection (1) does" there shall be substituted ." Subsections (1) and (1A) do "

In subsection (3) (duty of OFT to give requested assistance to Competition Commission)—

after the word "Commission", where it occurs for the first time, there shall be inserted ; and" or OFCOM "
after the word "Commission", where it occurs for the second, third and fourth time, there shall be inserted ." or (as the case may be) OFCOM "

After subsection (3) there shall be inserted—

In subsection (4) (duty of OFT to give unrequested information to Competition Commission)—

after the word "Commission", where it occurs for the first time, there shall be inserted ; and" or OFCOM "
after the word "Commission", where it occurs for the second and third time, there shall be inserted ." or (as the case may be) OFCOM "

After subsection (4) there shall be inserted—

In subsection (5) (duty of OFT and Competition Commission to give requested assistance to the Secretary of State) after the word "OFT", in both places where it occurs, there shall be inserted ." , OFCOM "

In subsection (6) (duty of OFT to give unrequested information to Secretary of State)—

after the word "OFT", where it occurs for the first time, there shall be inserted ;" and OFCOM "
for the word "its" there shall be substituted ; and" their "
after the word "OFT", where it occurs for the second time, there shall be inserted ." or (as the case may be) OFCOM "

In subsection (7) (duty to have regard to information given) for the words "or (4)" there shall be substituted ." , (3A), (4) or (4A) "

After subsection (7) there shall be inserted—

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