Part 3Mergers

Chapter 4Enforcement

Other

94 Rights to enforce undertakings and orders

(1)

This section applies to any enforcement undertaking or enforcement order.

(2)

Any person to whom such an undertaking or order relates shall have a duty to comply with it.

(3)

The duty shall be owed to any person who may be affected by a contravention of the undertaking or (as the case may be) order.

(4)

Any breach of the duty which causes such a person to sustain loss or damage shall be actionable by him.

(5)

In any proceedings brought under subsection (4) against a person to whom an enforcement undertaking or an enforcement order relates it shall be a defence for that person to show that he took all reasonable steps and exercised all due diligence to avoid contravening the undertaking or (as the case may be) order.

(6)

Compliance with an enforcement undertaking or an enforcement order shall also be enforceable by civil proceedings brought by the F1CMA for an injunction or for interdict or for any other appropriate relief or remedy.

F2(7)

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(8)

Compliance with an undertaking under paragraph F3... 3 or 9 of Schedule 7, an order made by the Secretary of State under F4section 70C(2), F5paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 or an order under paragraph 5, 6, 10 or 11 of that Schedule, shall also be enforceable by civil proceedings brought by the Secretary of State for an injunction or for interdict or for any other appropriate relief or remedy.

(9)

Subsections (6) to (8) shall not prejudice any right that a person may have by virtue of subsection (4) to bring civil proceedings for contravention or apprehended contravention of an enforcement undertaking or an enforcement order.

F6(10)

In subsection (8), “Secretary of State” includes the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.

F7(10)

In deciding whether and, if so, how to proceed under this section, the CMA must have regard to the statement of policy which was most recently published by it under section 94B at the time of the failure to comply with the undertaking or (as the case may be) order.