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Health and Social Care Act 2012

Competition Commission’s power to veto changes

810.Under paragraph 8, the Competition Commission may apply to the Secretary of State asking him to direct that the four-week period for it to veto Monitor’s proposed changes to licence conditions be extended by 14 days.

811.Where the Commission vetoes changes proposed by Monitor, it must give notice of the changes Monitor proposed and its reasons for directing Monitor not to make them. The Commission is required to make any changes to licence conditions that it considers necessary to address any adverse effects to the public interest identified in its report that it considers would not be remedied or prevented by the changes proposed by Monitor. The Commission must give Monitor and other relevant persons (section 101(5)(a) refers) 28 days’ notice of the changes it proposes to make, during which representations could be made. It must also publish the notice.

812.Once the changes had been made, the Commission must publish details of them and state why it had made them.

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