Part 1: Licensing of Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage Chapter 1: Licensing of Activities Section 24: Time limits for CMA to determine an appeal
Section 24 sets out that the CMA has an obligation to determine any appeal against a decision within a period of four months of the date on which permission to bring the appeal was given, unless it is a price control decision, in which case they have a period of six months.
	Where representations on timing are made and the CMA considers there are special reasons why the time limits above cannot be met, it may have an extra month for its decision. Thereby the CMA must determine an appeal in five months, or seven months in the case of a price control decision. In this case, the CMA must inform the parties of the time limit and publish it in a manner it considers appropriate to bring it to the attention of parties who may be affected by the determination.