Commentary on Sections Part 2: New Regulatory Arrangements, Etc 188. .Section 53: Specialist members of the Competition Commission.
This section provides for the abolition of the Competition Commission's sector-specific utility panel for water. Instead the Utilities Panel, established under the Utilities Act 2000 to deal with electricity and gas references, now also deals with water references. The section allows members of the abolished panel to automatically become members of the Utilities Panel and permits them to continue work on outstanding references after the new statutory arrangements are in place.