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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 14Regulators: use of powers under the 1998 Act

Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c. 7)

21In section 105 (discretionary requirements), after subsection (3) insert—

(3A)Before imposing a discretionary requirement on a person mentioned in subsection (1)(b), Monitor must consider whether it would be more appropriate to proceed under the Competition Act 1998.

(3B)Monitor must not impose a discretionary requirement on such a person if it considers that it would be more appropriate to proceed under the Competition Act 1998.