S.I. No. 437/2025 - Competition Act 2002 (Adjudication Officers) Regulations 2025

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 30th September, 2025.

I, PETER BURKE, Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 15O(2) and section 15Q(1) (inserted by section 13 of the Competition (Amendment) Act 2022 (No. 12 of 2022)) of the Competition Act 2002 (No. 14 of 2002), for the purposes of giving further effect to sections 15O and 15P of that Act, and having complied with section 52(3) (amended by section 22 of the Competition (Amendment) Act 2022 ) of that Act, hereby make the following regulations:

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Competition Act 2002 (Adjudication Officers) Regulations 2025.

Definition

2. In these Regulations, “principal regulations” means the Competition Act 2002 (Adjudication Officers) Regulations 2023 ( S.I. No. 476 of 2023 ).

Amendment of Regulation 15 of principal regulations

3. Regulation 15 of the principal regulations is amended, in paragraph (5), by the substitution of “Regulation 31” for “Regulation 0”.

Amendment of Regulation 24 of principal regulations

4. Regulation 24 of the principal regulations is amended, in paragraph (5), by the substitution of “appropriate authority” for “relevant authority”.

Amendment of Regulation 29 of principal regulations

5. Regulation 29 of the principal regulations is amended, in paragraph (1), by the substitution of “Where an assessment is required under Regulation 7, 11, 15 or 24,” for “Where an assessment is required under Regulation 7, 11 or 24,”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

25 September, 2025.

PETER BURKE,

Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment .

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

The purpose of these Regulations is to address a typographical error identified in 15(5) of the Competition Act 2002 (Adjudication Officers) Regulations 2023 and to provide further clarification and consistency on regulations 24(5) and 29(1).