When is the deadline for defence in a merger review (s.120) - substituted period?
The catalogue records a 28 days period from Date on which the respondent received a copy of the notice of application. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- 28 days
- Trigger
- Date on which the respondent received a copy of the notice of application
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- The substitution leaves the rest of rule 15(1) intact, including "or such further time as the Tribunal may allow". Routinely extendable by directions.
- This shortened period applies only to s.120 merger reviews. A s.179 market investigation review or a s.103 DMCC review keeps the full six weeks under rule 15(1), because rule 26(2) is expressly confined to s.120. Rule 26(1) otherwise applies rules 9 to 16 to review proceedings with "appeal" read as "application".