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Fair Trading Act 1973

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16Restriction on references under s.14 in respect of certain goods and services

(1)No reference under section 14 of this Act shall be made to the Advisory Committee by the Director except with the consent of the appropriate Minister, if it appears to the Director that the consumer trade practice in question—

(a)is carried on in connection only with the supply, by a body corporate to which this section applies, of goods or services of a description specified in Part I of Schedule 5 to this Act, or

(b)is carried on in connection only with the supply by such a body corporate of goods or services of a description specified in the first column of Part II of that Schedule, in so far as that supply falls within the entry relating to it in the second column of that Part of that Schedule.

(2)This section applies to any body corporate which fulfils the following conditions, that is to say—

(a)that the affairs of the body corporate are managed by its members, and

(b)that by virtue of an enactment those members are appointed by a Minister;

and in this section " Minister" includes a Minister of the Government of Northern Ireland, and "the appropriate Minister ", in relation to a body corporate, means the Minister by whom members of that body corporate are appointed.

(3)The Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument vary any of the provisions of Schedule 5 to this Act, either by adding one or more further entries or by altering or deleting any entry for the time being contained in it; and any reference in this Act to that Schedule shall be construed as a reference to that Schedule as for the time being in force.

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