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Fair Trading Act 1973
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83 Laying before Parliament and publication of reports.U.K.
(1)[F1Subject to subsection (1A) below] the Minister or Ministers to whom any report of the Advisory Committee on a reference to which section 17 of this Act applies, or any report of the Commission under this Act, is made shall lay a copy of the report before each House of Parliament, and shall arrange for the report to be published in such manner as appears to the Minister or Ministers to be appropriate.
[F2(1A)The Minister or Ministers to whom a report of the Commission on a monopoly reference is made shall not lay a copy of the report before either House of Parliament unless at least twenty-four hours before doing so he transmits or they transmit to every person named in the report as a person in whose favour a monopoly situation exists a copy of the report in the form in which it is laid (or by virtue of subsection (2) below is treated as being laid) before each House of Parliament.]
(2)If such a report is presented by command of Her Majesty to either House of Parliament otherwise than at or during the time of a sitting of that House, the presentation of the report shall for the purposes of this section be treated as the laying of a copy of it before that House by the Minister or Ministers to whom the report was made.
(3)If it appears to the Minister or Ministers to whom any report of the Advisory Committee or of the Commission under this Act is made that the publication of any matter in the report would be against the public interest, the Minister or Ministers shall exclude that matter from the copies of the report as laid before Parliament and from the report as published under this section.
[F3(3A)Without prejudice to subsection (3) above, if the Minister or Ministers to whom any such report is made consider that it would not be in the public interest to disclose—
(a)any matter contained in the report relating to the private affairs of an individual whose interests would, in the opinion of the Minister or Ministers, be seriously and prejudicially affected by the publication of that matter, or
(b)any matter contained in the report relating specifically to the affairs of a particular person whose interests would, in the opinion of the Minister or Ministers, be seriously and prejudicially affected by the publication of that matter,
the Minister or Ministers shall exclude that matter from the copies of the report as laid before Parliament and from the report as published under this section.]
(4)Any reference in this Act to a report of the Advisory Committee or of the Commission as laid before Parliament shall be construed as a reference to the report in the form in which copies of it are laid (or by virtue of subsection (2) of this section are treated as having been laid) before each House of Parliament under this section.
Textual Amendments
F1Words inserted (1.5.1980) by Competition Act 1980 (c. 21), s. 22(a)
F2S. 83(1A) inserted (1.5.1980) by Competition Act 1980 (c. 21), s. 22(b)
F3S. 83(3A) inserted by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), s. 153, Sch. 20 para. 12
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 83 applied (with modifications) (28.8.1996) by S.I. 1996/2199, reg. 16
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