Amendment 44

Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill - Report (1st Day) – in the House of Lords at 7:02 pm on 11 March 2024.

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Lord Bassam of Brighton:

Moved by Lord Bassam of Brighton

44: Clause 89, page 55, line 34, at end insert—“(1A) Section 114 of EA 2002 (appeals) applies in relation to—(a) a penalty imposed under section 85(4), and(b) a penalty imposed under section 87 in connection with a function of the CMA under Chapter 5 (mergers), as it applies in relation to a penalty imposed under section 110(1) of that Act (and see section 103 of this Act for provision about applications for a review relating to other penalties imposed under section 85(1) or (3) or section 87).”Member’s explanatory statementThis amendment, alongside others in my name to Clauses 89 and 103, would revert the relevant Clauses back to the ones first introduced in the House of Commons. This would reinstate judicial review principles as the means by which appeals against penalty decisions are heard, rather than such decisions being determined on the merits.

Amendment 44 agreed.

Amendment 45 not moved.