The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (Competition) (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2014 No. 892

SCHEDULE 1 TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS OF OFT AND COMPETITION COMMISSION TO CMA AND AMENDMENTS CONSEQUENTIAL ON PARTS 3 AND 4 OF THE ACT

PART 2 Amendments to other Acts of Parliament

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

57.—(1) Section 144 (powers exercisable in consequence of report of Competition Commission)(1) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) for “, the Office of Fair Trading or (as the case may be) the Competition Commission” substitute “or (as the case may be) the Competition and Markets Authority”;

(b) after “147(2)” insert “, 147A(2)”; and

(c) for “Commission” substitute “Competition and Markets Authority”.

(3) In subsection (3), for “, the Office of Fair Trading or (as the case may be) the Competition Commission” substitute “or (as the case may be) the Competition and Markets Authority”.

(4) In the heading, for “Monopolies and Mergers Commission” substitute “Competition and Markets Authority”.

(1)

By virtue of section 45(4) of the Competition Act 1998 the reference to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in the heading to section 144 has effect as a reference to the Competition Commission. Section 144 was also amended by Schedule 25 to the Enterprise Act 2002.