Part 4Market Studies and Market Investigations

Chapter 4Supplementary

Reports

177 Excisions from reports F1etc: Part 4

(1)

Subsection (2) applies where

F2(a)

the Secretary of State is under a duty to publish a report of the F3CMA under section 142F4;

(b)

the Secretary of State is under a duty to lay the CMA’s advice under section 162(3) or 162A(8) before each House of Parliament.

(2)

The Secretary of State may exclude a matter from the report F5or advice if he considers that publication of the matter F6, or the inclusion of it in the advice laid before Parliament, would be inappropriate.

(3)

In deciding what is inappropriate for the purposes of subsection (2) the Secretary of State shall have regard to the considerations mentioned in section 244.

(4)

The F7CMA shall advise the Secretary of State as to the matters (if any) which it considers should be excluded by him under subsection (2).

(5)

References in sections 136(4) to (6)F8... and 172(10) to the giving or laying of a report of the F9CMA shall be construed as references to the giving or laying of the report as published.