LegalizeThe Fair Trading Act (Amendment) (Newspaper mergers) Order 1995
Made: 23rd May 1995
Laid before Parliament: 23rd May 1995
Coming into force: 13th June 1995
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 58(5) of the Fair Trading Act 1973[^f00001], hereby makes the following Order:
1
This Order may be cited as the Fair Trading Act (Amendment) (Newspaper mergers) Order 1995 and shall come into force on 13th June 1995.
2
In section 58(4) of the Fair Trading Act 1973, for “25,000” there shall be substituted “50,000”.
Signed
Jonathan Evans, — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Corporate and Consumer Affairs, — Department of Trade and Industry — 23rd May 1995
Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order increases the threshold below which the Secretary of State has a discretion to give his consent to a newspaper merger requiring his consent without referring the matter to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission for investigation and report.
Footnotes
[^f00001]: 1973 c. 41.
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