1 Schedule 4 to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (the Competition and Markets Authority) is amended as follows.

2 (1) Paragraph 1 is amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (1)(b)—

(a) in the words before paragraph (i), for “to membership of” substitute “as follows”;

(b) in paragraph (i), at the beginning insert “persons appointed to membership of”;

(c) in paragraph (ii), at the beginning insert “persons appointed to membership of”;

(d) in paragraph (iii), at the beginning insert “persons appointed to membership of”;

(e) after paragraph (iii) insert—

(i) a person (the “OIM panel chair”) appointed to chair the Office for the Internal Market panel and to membership of the CMA Board;

(ii) other persons appointed to membership of the Office for the Internal Market panel (“the OIM panel”) (see Part 3A).”

(3) After sub-paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A) Before making an appointment under paragraph (iv) or (v) of sub-paragraph (1)(b), the Secretary of State must consult—

(a) the Scottish Ministers,

(b) the Welsh Ministers, and

(c) the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland.”

3 (1) Paragraph 3 is amended as follows.

(2) After sub-paragraph (2), insert—

“(2A) Appointment to membership of the OIM panel under paragraph 1(1)(b) is to be for a term of not more than eight years.”

(3) At the end insert—

“(4) Where at the beginning of a person’s term of appointment to membership of the CMA panel the person has already begun (and continues) to hold office as a member of the OIM panel, the term of the person’s appointment to membership of the CMA panel is to be treated for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) as beginning when the person’s term of appointment to membership of the OIM panel began.

(5) Where at the beginning of a person’s term of appointment to membership of the OIM panel the person has already begun (and continues) to hold office as a member of the CMA panel, the term of the person’s appointment to membership of the OIM panel is to be treated for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2A) as beginning when the person’s term of appointment to membership of the CMA panel began.”

4 (1) Paragraph 4 is amended as follows.

(2) After sub-paragraph (1), insert—

“(1A) A person who has been appointed to membership of the OIM panel may be re-appointed to membership of the OIM panel only for the purpose of continuing to act as a member of a group constituted under paragraph 58B before the expiry of the person’s term of office.”

(3) In sub-paragraph (2), for “sub-paragraph (1)” substitute “sub-paragraphs (1) and (1A)”.

5 (1) Paragraph 6 is amended as follows.

(2) In sub-paragraph (2), for “of either the CMA Board or the CMA panel (but not of both)” substitute “of one, but not more than one, of the CMA Board, the CMA panel and the OIM panel,”.

(3) In sub-paragraph (3)—

(a) in the words before paragraph (a), after “panel” insert “or both the CMA panel and the OIM panel”;

(b) for paragraph (a) substitute—

(a) resign from one of those memberships (without resigning from the other), or”.

(4) After sub-paragraph (3) insert—

“(4) The OIM panel chair may at any time resign from membership of the CMA by giving written notice to this effect to the Secretary of State (and may not resign from the OIM panel, or any other office to which the person is appointed by virtue of paragraph 1(1)(b)(iv), except in accordance with this sub-paragraph).”

6 In paragraph 9(2)—

(a) omit “or” at the end of paragraph (a);

(b) after paragraph (b) insert “, or

(c) a member of the OIM panel.”

7 In paragraph 10(2)(b), at the end insert “or the OIM panel”.

8 After Part 3 insert—