Commentary Part 1 – Airports Schedule 2: Appeals under sections 24 and 25 Part 6: General
136.This Part of the Schedule sets out general procedures applicable to the Competition Commission in carrying out its functions under Chapter 1 (including Schedule 2). It makes provision for the receipt of new evidence in certain circumstances. It provides that an application for permission to appeal or an appeal, or permission to intervene or an intervention, may only be withdrawn with the Competition Commission’s consent (at paragraph 30). It includes provisions requiring the Competition Commission to make a costs order to recover its own costs and empowers it to make costs orders between the parties and former parties to an appeal (at paragraph 32). Paragraph 33 enables the Secretary of State, by regulations, to modify the time periods in Schedule 2.