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The Enterprise Act 2002 and Media Mergers (Consequential Amendments) Order 2003

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Fair Trading Act 1973

1.—(1) The Fair Trading Act 1973(1) is amended as follows.

(2) Section 5 (principal functions of Commission) is repealed.

(3) Section 77 (associated persons) is repealed.

(4) Section 82 (general provisions as to reports) is repealed.

(5) Section 83 (laying before Parliament and publication of reports) is repealed.

(6) Section 85 (attendance of witnesses and production of documents) is repealed.

(7) Section 87 (supplementary provisions as to laying reports before Parliament) is repealed.

(8) In section 93B (false or misleading information) subsection (1)(a) is repealed.

(9) In section 132 (offences by bodies corporate) the words “section 85(6)” are repealed.

(10) In section 137 (general interpretation provisions)—

(a)in subsection (1) the definition of “assignment” is repealed;

(b)in subsection (2) the following definitions are repealed—

  • “commercial activities in the United Kingdom”;

  • “complex monopoly situation”;

  • “group”;

  • “merger reference”;

  • “monopoly reference”;

  • “newspaper merger reference”;

  • “price”;

  • “produce”;

  • “uncompetitive practices”;

  • “worker”; and

    (c)

    subsection (7) is repealed.

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