2013 No. 2268

Competition

The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition and Markets Authority) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013

Made

Laid before Parliament

Coming into force

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 99(1) and (2)(b) of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 20131, makes the following Order.

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition and Markets Authority) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2013 and comes into force on 1st October 2013.

Amendment of the National Assembly for Wales (Disqualification) Order 20102

In Part 1 of the Schedule to the National Assembly for Wales (Disqualification) Order 20102 (bodies the members of which are disqualified) at the appropriate place insert—

Competition and Markets Authority

Jo SwinsonParliamentary Under Secretary of State for Employment Relations and Consumer AffairsDepartment for Business, Innovation and Skills
EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

Section 25 of and Schedule 4 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (“the Act”) provide for the creation of the Competition and Markets Authority (“CMA”). Section 26 of and Schedules 5 and 6 to the Act provide for the abolition of the Office of Fair Trading (“OFT”) and the Competition Commission (“the Commission”) and for the transfer of functions from the OFT and the Commission to the CMA.

Section 25(1), (2) and (4) of the Act, and provisions of Schedule 4 to the Act, are brought into force on 1st October 2013 by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Commencement No. 3, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2227). This Order makes a consequential amendment to the National Assembly for Wales (Disqualification) Order 2010 (“the 2010 Order”) necessitated by the establishment of the CMA on 1st October 2013.

The 2010 Order lists the OFT and Commission as bodies whose members are disqualified from election to the National Assembly for Wales. This Order extends this disqualification to members of the CMA.

The provisions of the Act abolishing the OFT and Commission have not yet been brought into force.