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the determination registered for enforcement in the High Court or the Court of Session.
(4) A party in whose favour an award of costs has been made by conciliators under Article 43, paragraph 3 (vexatious or fri- volous proceedings) may apply to have the award registered for enforcement in the High Court or the Court of Session.
(5) Provision may be made by rules of court as to--
(a) the manner in which application is to be made for registration of a recommendation, determination or award under this section;
(b) the documents to be produced and the matters to be proved by a person seeking recognition of a recom- mendation or enforcement of a recommendation, deter- mination or award;
(c) the manner in which a recommendation, determina-
tion or award is to be registered under this section; (d) the manner in which and the conditions subject to which a recommendation, determination or award so regis- tered may be enforced.
(6) Subject to any provision made under subsection (5)(d), a recommendation, determination or award registered under this section shall, for the purposes of its enforcement, be of the same force and effect, the registering court shall have the same powers in relation to its enforcement, and proceedings for or with respect to its enforcement may be taken, as if the recom- mendation, determination or award had been a judgment or decree originally given in the registering court and had (where relevant) been entered.
(7) Where a recommendation, determination or award is registered under this section, the reasonable costs or expenses of, and incidental to, its registration are recoverable as if they were sums recoverable under it, except that they carry interest as if they were the subject of an order for the payment of costs or expenses made by the registering court on the date of registra- tion.
Other supplementary provisions
10.-(1) The appropriate authority in the United Kingdom for the purposes of the Code is the Secretary of State.
(2) Information obtained by the Secretary of State as appro- priate authority for the purposes of the Code shall not, without the consent of the person from whom it was obtained, be dis- closed except-
(a) for the purpose of the discharge by the Secretary of
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State of his functions in connection with the Code;
or
(b) for the purpose of any proceedings arising out of the
Code; or
(c) with a view to the institution of, or otherwise for the purposes of, any criminal proceedings, whether under this Act or otherwise; or
(d) to a Community institution in pursuance of a Com-
munity obligation;
and a person who discloses any information in contravention of this subsection shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000.
(3) Proceedings in England and Wales for an offence under subsection (2) shall not be brought except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions; and proceedings in Northern Ireland for such an offence shall not be brought ex- cept by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecu- tions for Northern Ireland.
11.—(1) No account shall be taken of any restriction to which Exclusion of this section applies for the purposes of the Restrictive Trade restrictive Practices Act 1976, and no agreement shall so far as it relates practices law.
to any such restriction be unenforceable by virtue of any rule of law about unreasonable restraint of trade.
(2) This section applies to restrictions of any of the following descriptions which relate to the trade between states which are Contracting Parties to the Code and are accepted within the framework of a conference, that is to say—
(a) restrictions in respect of the provision of international liner services accepted by the operators of such services under an agreement to which two or more such oper- ators are parties;
(b) restrictions in respect of international liner services accepted by operators of such services or persons for whom such services are provided under an agreement to which one or more such operators and one or more such persons are parties;
(c) restrictions in respect of the supply or acquisition of any service in connection with the operation of inter- national liner services accepted by operators of such services or persons in the business of supplying such a service under an agreement to which one or more such operators and one such supplier are parties.
(3) Where a restriction relates only in part to the matters men- tioned in subsection (2), this section applies to the restriction so far as it relates to those matters.
1976 c. 34.