MAINTENANCE AND PROMOTION
OF COMPETITION AMENDMENT ACT
NO. 88 OF 1990
[Assented to 21 June, 1990] [Date of Commencement: 4 July, 1990]
(English text signed by the State President)
ACT
To amend the Maintenance and Promotion of Competition Act, 1979, so as to further define a restrictive practice; to alter an obsolete designation and expression; to further regulate the functions of the Competition Board; to make further provision in connection with the power of the said Board to require returns and to make investigations; to make other provision in respect of acquisitions; and to effect certain consequential amendments arising from the regulation of monopoly situations; and to provide for incidental matters.
1. Amends section 1 of the Maintenance and Promotion of Competition Act, No. 96 of 1979, as follows:-paragraph (a) substitutes the definition of "Minister"; and paragraph (b) substitutes in the definition of "restrictive practice" the words following upon paragraph (d) and preceding paragraph (i).
2. Amends section 6 of the Maintenance and Promotion of Competition Act, No. 96 of 1979, as follows:-paragraph (a) substitutes subsection (1); paragraph (b) substitutes subsection (2) (a); and paragraph (c) deletes subsection (3).
3. Amends section 8 of the Maintenance and Promotion of Competition Act, No. 96 of 1979, by substituting subsection (1).
4. Amends section 9 of the Maintenance and Promotion of Competition Act, No. 96 of 1979, as follows:-paragraph (a) substitutes in subsection (2) the words preceding paragraph (a); and paragraph (b) substitutes subsection (3).
6. Amends section 12 of the Maintenance and Promotion of Competition Act, No. 96 of 1979, as follows:-paragraph (a) substitutes subsection (2) (b); and paragraph (b) substitutes subsection (4).
7 and 8. Substitute respectively section 14 and the long title of the Maintenance and Promotion of Competition Act, No. 96 of 1979.
9. Short title.-This Act shall be called the Maintenance and Promotion of Competition Amendment Act, 1990.