Effect of registration, etc.
11ABF1Powers exercisable following merger and market investigations
1
Subsection (2) below applies where—
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section 41(2), 55(2), 66(6), 75(2), 83(2), 138(2), 147(2) F3, 147A(2) or 160(2) of, or paragraph 5(2) or 10(2) of Schedule 7 to, the Enterprise Act 2002 (powers to take remedial action following merger or market investigations) applies;
b
the F7Competition and Markets Authority or (as the case may be) the Secretary of State considers that it would be appropriate to make an application under this section for the purpose of remedying, mitigating or preventing a matter which cannot be dealt with under the enactment concerned; and
c
the matter concerned involves conditions in licences granted in respect of a registered design by its proprietor restricting the use of the design by the licensee or the right of the proprietor to grant other licences.
2
The F8Competition and Markets Authority or (as the case may be) the Secretary of State may apply to the registrar to take action under this section.
3
Before making an application the F8Competition and Markets Authority or (as the case may be) the Secretary of State shall publish, in such manner as it or he thinks appropriate, a notice describing the nature of the proposed application and shall consider any representations which may be made within 30 days of such publication by persons whose interests appear to it or him to be affected.
4
The registrar may, if it appears to him on an application under this section that the application is made in accordance with this section, by order cancel or modify any condition concerned of the kind mentioned in subsection (1)(c) above.
5
An appeal lies from any order of the registrar under this section.
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References in this section to the Competition and Markets Authority are references to a CMA group except where—
a
section 75(2) of the Enterprise Act 2002 applies; or
b
any other enactment mentioned in subsection (1)(a) above applies and the functions of the Competition and Markets Authority under that enactment are being performed by the CMA Board by virtue of section 34C(3) or 133A(2) of the Enterprise Act 2002.
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References in section 35, 36, 47, 63, 134 F4, 141 or 141A of the Enterprise Act 2002 (questions to be decided by the F5Competition and Markets Authority in its reports) to taking action under section 41(2), 55, 66, 138 F6, 147 or 147A shall include references to taking action under subsection (2) above.
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An order made by virtue of this section in consequence of action under subsection (2) above where an enactment mentioned in subsection (1)(a) above applies shall be treated, for the purposes of sections 91(3), 92(1)(a), 162(1) and 166(3) of the Enterprise Act 2002 (duties to register and keep under review enforcement orders etc. ), as if it were made under the relevant power in Part 3 or (as the case may be) 4 of that Act to make an enforcement order (within the meaning of the Part concerned).
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In subsection (6) “CMA Board” and “CMA group” have the same meaning as in Schedule 4 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013.