Part 1: Digital Markets Investigatory powers etc Section 81: Privileged communications
This section specifies that the CMA cannot require any information subject to legal professional privilege or (in Scotland) confidentiality of communications - i.e. the principle that legal advice is confidential to the client to whom it is given - when exercising its investigatory powers under this Part of the Act.
	Subsection (2) specifies that this limitation applies to producing, taking possession of, taking copies of, or extracts from, a privileged communication. Subsection (2) also clarifies that this limitation is subject to Part 2 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 as that Part is amended by section 77 of the Act. This means that legally privileged information is subject to the relevant provisions and safeguards in the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, when the CMA is exercising its power to seize information when entering premises under a warrant under section 75 of the Act.