Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (c. 13) – Section 121 – Duty to preserve documents relevant to investigations
Sections
Section 121Duty to preserve documents relevant to investigations
(1) Chapter 3 of Part 1 of CA 1998 (competition: investigation and enforcement) is amended as follows.
(2) After section 25A insert—
“25B Duty to preserve documents relevant to investigations
(1) Subsection (2) applies where a person knows or suspects that an investigation by the CMA under section 25 is being or is likely to be carried out.
(2) The person must not—
- (a)falsify, conceal, destroy or otherwise dispose of, or
- (b)cause or permit the falsification, concealment, destruction or disposal of,
a document which the person knows or suspects is or would be relevant to the investigation.
(3) In this section, the reference to concealing a document includes a reference to destroying the means of reproducing information recorded otherwise than in legible form.”
(3) In section 40ZE (enforcement of requirements: imposition of penalties) (inserted by paragraph 8 of Schedule 10), in subsection (1), in paragraph (a), after “imposed on the person” insert “by section 25B or”.
Annotations
Commencement Information
- I1 S. 121 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 339(1)
- I2 S. 121 in force at 1.1.2025 by S.I. 2024/1226, regs. 1(2), 2(1)(2)
https://dmcca.digiphile.law/article/article-121.html
Text as at 7 October 2026.
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