- Section 85Penalties for failure to comply with competition requirements
(1) Where the CMA considers that an undertaking has, without reasonable excuse, failed to comply with a requirement listed in subsection (2) , it may impose a penalty…
- Section 86Amount of penalties under section 85
(1) The amount of a penalty imposed on a person under section 85 may be such amount as the CMA considers appropriate, provided it does not exceed the…
- Section 87Penalties for failure to comply with investigative requirements
(1) The CMA may impose a penalty on a person where it considers that the person has, without reasonable excuse— (a) failed to comply with a requirement imposed…
- Section 88Amount of penalties under section 87
(1) The amount of a penalty imposed on a person under section 87 may be such amount as the CMA considers appropriate, provided it does not exceed the…
- Section 89Procedure and appeals etc
(1) Sections 112 (penalties: main procedural requirements), 113 (payments and interest by instalments), 114 (appeals), and 115 (recovery of penalties) of EA 2002 apply in relation to a…
- Section 90Calculation of daily rates and turnover
(1) In imposing a penalty by reference to a daily rate— (a) no account is to be taken of any days before the service on the person concerned…
- Section 91Statement of policy on penalties
(1) The CMA must prepare and publish a statement of policy in relation to the exercise of powers to impose a penalty under sections 85 and 87 .…
- Section 92Monetary penalties: criminal proceedings and convictions
(1) The CMA may not impose a penalty on a person under section 87 in relation to an act or omission which constitutes an offence under section 93…
- Section 93Destroying or falsifying information
(1) A person (“P”) commits an offence if, having been required to give information to the CMA or any other person under a provision of Chapter 6 ,…
- Section 94False or misleading information
(1) A person (“P”) commits an offence if— (a) P gives information to the CMA in connection with any of the CMA’s digital markets functions, (b) the information…
- Section 95Obstructing an officer
(1) A person (“P”) commits an offence if P intentionally obstructs an officer of the CMA acting in the exercise of the officer’s powers under— (a) section 74…
- Section 96Offences by officers of a body corporate etc
(1) If an offence under section 93 , 94 or 95 committed by a body corporate is proved— (a) to have been committed with the consent or connivance…
- Section 97Offences: limits on extra-territorial jurisdiction
A person does not commit an offence under section 93 , 94 or 95 (including as those sections are applied by section 96 ) by virtue of an…
- Section 98Sentences
A person guilty of an offence under section 93 , 94 or 95 is liable— (a) on summary conviction in England and Wales, to a fine; (b) on…
- Section 99Director disqualification
(1) In the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 , in section 9A (competition disqualification order), in subsection (4)— (a) in the words before paragraph (a), for “either” substitute…
- Section 100Enforcement of requirements
(1) If a person fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a requirement mentioned in subsection (2) (a “subsection (2) requirement”), the CMA may apply to the court…
- Section 101Rights to enforce requirements of this Part
(1) A relevant requirement is to be treated as a duty owed by the person that is subject to the requirement to any other person (“P”) who may…
- Section 102Treatment of CMA breach decisions etc
(1) The appropriate court (see section 101 ) and the Tribunal are bound by a CMA breach decision once it has become final. (2) A CMA breach decision…
- Section 103Applications for review etc
(1) A person with a sufficient interest in any decision to which subsection (2) applies may apply to the Tribunal in accordance with Tribunal rules for a review…
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Text as at 7 October 2026.
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