Restrictive Practices Court

The Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1956 was intended to enforce competition. It required that any agreement between companies which restricted trading should be placed on a public register unless granted exemption by the Secretary of State. Changes to an agreement –including its ending –were required to be notified and no agreement could be brought into force before appearing on the register.[1]
The registrar could refer any agreements which appeared to operate against the public interest to the Restrictive Practices Court -a senior court of record in the United Kingdom. Though the Court was overhauled in 1976,[2] by the end of the century, the legislation was perceived as increasingly out of line with Articles 81 and 82 of the Treaty of Rome. The Court was gradually replaced by a new judicial regime under the Competition Act 1998 and Enterprise Act 2002[3] and was ultimately disestablished on 10 March 2013.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Restrictive Trade Practices 1956-2000" (PDF). The National Archives. p. 4.2. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
  2. ↑ Restrictive Practices Court Act 1976
  3. ↑ "Competition authorities". Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform. 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-20.
  4. ↑ Competition Act 1998, s.1(a), SI284/2013



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