Editing Competition Commission (section)

==History==
The '''Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Commission''' was set up on 1 January 1949, in response to the recommendations of several committees of inquiry into restrictive commercial activity. It was established under the [[Monopolies and Restrictive Practices (Inquiry and Control) Act 1948]]. It was reconstituted as the '''Monopolies Commission''' on 31 October 1956 by the [[Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1955]], which also set up a [[Restrictive Practices Court]] and a registrar of restrictive trading agreements. The commission was again reconstituted, and its powers extended, by the [[Monopolies and Mergers Act 1965]]. In 1969 oversight of the Commission passed to the [[Department of Employment|Department of Employment and Productivity]], and in 1970 to the [[Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)|Department of Trade and Industry]]. Under the [[Fair Trading Act 1973]] the Commission became, from 1 November 1973, the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, with wider powers to deal with references either from the [[Office of Fair Trading]] or from the Department of Trade and Industry. On 1 April 1999, as a result of the [[Competition Act 1998]], it became the Competition Commission.<ref>{{Citation |last=Monopolies and Mergers Commission |title=The role of the Commission |publisher=HMSO |edition=3rd |isbn=0-11-515211-3 |year=1990}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url = http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C166|title = Records of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission, predecessors and successors |website = The National Archives |access-date= 27 June 2013 }}</ref>