The Competition Act 1980 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1980

(Article 3)

SCHEDULE 1

Part I

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions of the Act	Subject matter	Purposes
Section 1	Abolition of Price Commission	All purposes
Section 11(1) to (3) and (6) to (11) (except paragraph (b) of subsection (3) and paragraph (f) so far as relating to paragraph (b))	References of public bodies and certain other persons to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission	All purposes
Section 15(2) and (5) (except paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2))	Agricultural schemes: special provisions	Purposes of section 11 of the Act
Section 16	Reports	Purposes of reports under section 11 of the Act
Section 17(1) to (5)	Laying before Parliament and publication of reports	Purposes of reports under section 11 of the Act
Section 19	Restriction on disclosure of information	All purposes
Section 23	Amendment of section 137(3) of Fair Trading Act 1973	All purposes
Section 31(1)	Orders and regulations	All purposes
Section 32	Financial provisions	All purposes
Section 33(1) and (2) and (5) to (8)	Short title, interpretation, commencement and extent	All purposes
Section 33(4) (except so far as it relates to the provisions referred to in Part III of this Schedule)	Repeals	All purposes
Schedule 1	Dissolution of Price Commission	All purposes
Schedule 2 (except so far as it relates to the provisions referred to in Part III of this Schedule)	Repeals	All purposes

Part II

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions of the Act	Subject matter	Purposes
Section 3(7) and (8)	Powers to require production of documents and information	Purposes of investigations under section 13
Section 12	Orders following report under section 11 of the Act	All purposes
Section 13	Investigations of prices directed by Secretary of State	All purposes
Section 14	Applications by Crown concerning patents	All purposes
Section 15(1)	Agricultural schemes: special provisions	All purposes
Section 16	General provisions as to reports	Purposes of reports under section 13 of the Act
Section 17(1) and (3) to (5)	Laying before Parliament and publication of reports	Purposes of reports under section 13 of the Act
Section 17(6)	Laying before Parliament and publication of reports	Purposes of reports under section 12 of the Act
Section 18	Information and advice about operation of Act	All purposes
Section 20	Power to make grants to certain bodies	All purposes
Section 21	Monopoly references by Secretary of State alone	All purposes
Section 22	Disclosure of reports on monopoly references to persons named	All purposes
Section 24	Modification of provisions about performance of Monopolies and Mergers Commission's functions	All purposes
Section 25	Suspension of declarations under section 1(3) of Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 pending appeals.	All purposes
Section 26	Suspension of declarations under section 1(3) of Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 pending revision of agreements	All purposes
Section 27	Recommendations by services supply associations	All purposes
Section 28	Amendments to section 19 of Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976	All purposes
Section 29	Exemption of certain undertakings from Restrictive Trade Practices Acts	All purposes
Section 30	Exemption of copyright agreements from Restrictive Trade Practices Acts	All purposes
Section 31(3)	Regulations and orders	Purposes of section 12 of the Act
Section 31(4)	Orders under section 24(1) of the Act	All purposes
Section 33(3)	Interpretation	All purposes

Part III

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions of the Act	Subject matter	Purposes
Section 33(4) and Schedule 2 so far as they relate to the following provisions of the Counter-Inflation Act 1973— section 17(6), (8) and (9) section 18(4) and (5) section 19 section 20(4), 5(i) and (iii), and (7) section 23(2) Paragraph 4 of Schedule 4 (except sub-paragraph (2)(b)), and section 15(4) of, and paragraph 4(b) and (d) of Schedule 2 to the Price Commission Act 1977.	Repeals	All purposes

(Article 4)

SCHEDULE 2 SAVINGS

Nothing in Schedule 2 to the Act shall apply—

(a) to or in relation to the Price Commission during the winding-up period (within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Act);

(b) to or in relation to the Secretary of State in the exercise of his functions under section 1(3)(b) of the Act;

(c) to any power or duty of the Secretary of State or the Minister for the Civil Service relating to remuneration, compensation, allowances, pensions or gratuities which are or may be payable to or in respect of persons who on or before the expiry of the winding-up period are or were members of the Price Commission or engaged in its business;

(d) in relation to any restriction imposed by any order or notice under section 6 of the Counter-Inflation Act 1973 to which section 21(5) of the Price Commission Act 1977 applies;

(e) in relation to provisions of any order made under section 11 of the Counter-Inflation Act 1973 to which paragraph 10 of Schedule 2 to the Price Commission Act 1977 applies;

(f) to the power of the Secretary of State to make grants under section 18 of the Price Commission Act 1977 in respect of expenditure incurred by any person before 31st March 1980.