Race Relations (Amendment) Act 2000 Explanatory Notes

Section 71E

41.Section 71E gives the CRE the power to apply for a court order requiring a public authority to provide information required by a compliance notice if that authority has failed to do so, or if the CRE has reason to believe it does not intend to do so.  It also provides for the CRE to apply for a court order requiring a public authority to comply with a requirement of a compliance notice, where the Commission considers that that public authority has not complied with it within three months of the compliance notice having been served.  The court may grant the order in the terms applied for or in more limited terms.

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