Part 2: Competition Chapter 2: Mergers New section 70G
New section 70G enables the Secretary of State to amend the definition of "foreign power" or "newspaper" (subsection (1)) by making regulations subject to the affirmative resolution procedure. Such regulations may provide for a description of person to be treated as if they were not a foreign power (subsection (2)), for the purpose of this Chapter.
	Subsection (1) of this section enables the Secretary of State to change the meaning of ‘foreign power’.
	Subsection (2) of this section sets out that regulations may, in particular, make provision to exclude categories of persons from being treated as a foreign power and to base this on the level of independence that person has from a foreign power or the level of interest they have in a newspaper or news magazine.
	Subsection (1)(b) gives the Secretary of State the ability to change the definition of ‘newspaper’, where reference is made to it throughout this Chapter either to widen or to narrow the scope of the types of news publication covered by the foreign state newspaper merger regime.
	Subsection (3) gives the Secretary of State the power to apply provisions in Chapter 1 of Part 3 of the Enterprise Act 2002 to the new regime in Chapter 3A. In particular, a modification to a provision in Part 3, Chapter 1 by Schedule 6A sets the turnover threshold for the creation of a foreign state newspaper merger situation at £2 million. The power in section 70G(3) enables this threshold to be varied.