When is the deadline for limitation suspended during a competition authority investigation?
The catalogue records a 12 months period from The first formal step taken by the competition authority in the investigation (para 21(2)). This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- 12 months
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- The first formal step taken by the competition authority in the investigation (para 21(2))
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- None. This is an automatic statutory suspension, not a discretionary extension. Para 21(1): the period of the investigation "is not to be counted" in calculating whether limitation has expired.
- The engine must treat this as a stop-clock, not a fresh start: Sch 8A para 25 provides that a suspension period "is not to be regarded as separating the time immediately before it from the time immediately after it", so pre-suspension elapsed time still counts. The one-year tail runs from the day the decision becomes FINAL (see Competition Act 1998 s.58A), which is normally aft