SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Subsidies provided by primary legislation

I1I210Recovery orders

1

Section 74 applies in subsidy proceedings before the appropriate court as it applies to proceedings under Part 5 before the Competition Appeal Tribunal.

2

For this purpose—

a

section 74 is to be read as if, for subsection (1), there were substituted—

1

The appropriate court may make a recovery order if—

a

in exercise of its powers, it determines that relief should be granted in respect of a subsidy provided by means of devolved primary legislation, and

b

in reaching that determination the appropriate court finds that the giving of the subsidy, or the making of the subsidy scheme under which it was given, did not comply with a requirement of Chapter 1 or 2 of Part 2.

b

subsection (2)(a) of that section is to be read as if, for the words from “a public authority” to “that subsidy”, there were substituted “the appropriate authority to recover a subsidy provided by means of devolved primary legislation”;

c

subsection (2)(b) of that section is to be read as if the reference to the public authority were a reference to the appropriate authority;

d

subsection (4) of that section is to be ignored.