56. Section 19 of the Act of 2002 is amended—

(a) in paragraph (d) of subsection (1), by substituting “120 working days after the appropriate date have elapsed, or, where a requirement was made under section 20(2), 120 working days and any period of suspension that applied pursuant to section 22(4A) after the appropriate date have elapsed” for “4 months after the appropriate date have elapsed”,

(b) in subsection (5), by substituting “12 months after the relevant period referred to in subsection (1)(d) has elapsed” for “16 months after the appropriate date”,

(c) in subsection (6) —

(i) by substituting the following paragraphs for paragraph (a):

“(a) unless paragraph (b) applies, the date of receipt by the Commission of the notification of the merger or acquisition concerned under section 18(1),

(aa) notwithstanding subsection (8), and unless paragraph (b) applies, the date of receipt by the Commission of the first notification of a merger or acquisition under section 18(3),”,

and

(ii) by substituting, in subsection (b), “30 working days” for “1 month”,

and

(d) by substituting the following subsection for subsection (7):

“(7) The reference, in the definition of ‘appropriate date’ in subsection (6), and in section 22(4A), to the period specified in a requirement, is a reference to—

(a) the period specified in the requirement as being the period within which the information concerned shall be supplied, and

(b) where a requirement has been extended under section 20(2A) or section 20(2B), the date specified in the requirement as so extended.”