39 Time-limits for investigations and reports

39  Time-limits for investigations and reports

(1)     The [CMA] shall prepare and publish its report under section 38 within the period of 24 weeks beginning with the date of the reference concerned.

(2)     . . .

[(2A)     Where the CMA and the persons carrying on the enterprises concerned agree—

(a)     that the period within which a report under section 38 is to be prepared and published (the “original period”) should be extended, and

(b)     the duration of the period by which the original period should be extended (the “extension period”),

the CMA may extend the original period by the extension period.]

(3)     The [CMA] may extend, by no more than 8 weeks, the period within which a report under section 38 [on a reference under section 22(1) or 33(1)] is to be prepared and published if it considers that there are special reasons why the report cannot be prepared and published within

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