Part 2: Competition Chapter 2: Mergers New section 70E
New section 70E sets out a definition of "foreign power" for the purposes of this Chapter. The definition is modelled on section 32 of the National Security Act 2023 but also includes senior members of a foreign government, state, agency or authority in their private capacity as well as their public one. Subsection (3) clarifies that the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man and the British Overseas Territories are not to be considered as foreign countries or territories for the purpose of this Chapter.
	This provision should be read with section 127 of the Enterprise Act (associated persons). Section 127 provides that associated persons, and any bodies corporate they control, are to be treated as one person for the purposes of establishing whether there is a foreign state newspaper merger situation under new section 70A(3) – see paragraph 4(10) of Schedule 6A to the Act. For example, an individual who is a foreign power, and any spouse, partner or relative of that individual are associated persons.