Part 2: Subsidy control requirements Chapter 2: Prohibitions and other requirements Section 31: Subsidies or schemes subject to mandatory referral
Chapter 1 of Part 4 deals with mandatory referrals to the CMA. This section prohibits a subsidy or scheme which is given or made in circumstances where:
a mandatory referral request should have been made to the CMA but none was submitted by the public authority in accordance with the requirements that apply to such requests; or
a mandatory referral request was submitted but the public authority did not wait for the mandatory referral process to conclude before giving the subsidy or making the scheme.