The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Transitory Provisions) Order 2003
This Order amends the Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal Rules (S.I. 2000/261) (“the Rules”) and the EC Competition Law (Articles 84 and 85) Enforcement Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/2916) (“the Regulations”) in relation to the creation of the Competition Appeal Tribunal (the Tribunal) in consequence of the coming into force on 1st April 2003 of various provisions of the Enterprise Act 2002 (“the Act”) concerning the Tribunal, including paragraph 12(1) of Schedule 24 of the Act which provides for the Rules to be treated as rules made under section 15 of the Act so that they apply to proceedings before the Tribunal. Article 2 of this Order makes provision in relation to the meaning of certain terms in the Rules. Article 3 contains similar minor consequential amendments to the Regulations. Article 4 makes transitory provision to amend section 47(6) of the Competition Act 1998 pending the commencement of the substitution of a new section 47 in that Act by section 17 of the Act.