SCHEDULES
C1SCHEDULE 2FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS
Investigation powers
2
1
A financial investigator may by notice in writing require any person who he has reason to believe has information which appears to the investigator to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation to attend before the investigator at a specified place either forthwith or at a specified time and answer questions or otherwise furnish information which appears to the investigator to relate to the investigation.
2
A financial investigator may by notice in writing require any person who he has reason to believe has information which appears to the investigator to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation to furnish specified information which appears to the investigator to relate to the investigation within a specified time or such further time as the investigator may allowF1 or on a specified date and in a specified manner or in such other manner as the investigator may allow.
3
A financial investigator may by notice in writing require any person who he has reason to believe has information which appears to the investigator to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation to produce at a specified place and either forthwith or at a specified time any specified documents—
a
which are in his possession, custody or power; or
b
to which he has access; or
c
of which he may obtain a copy,
and which appear to the investigator to relate to the investigation or any documents of a specified class which appear to the investigator to relate to any such matter.
4
If any documents are produced pursuant to a notice under sub-paragraph (3) the financial investigator may—
a
take copies of or abstracts from them; or
b
require the person producing them to provide an explanation of them; or
c
retain them if he has reasonable grounds for believing that they might otherwise be concealed, lost, damaged, altered or destroyed.
5
If any documents are not produced pursuant to a notice under sub-paragraph (3) the financial investigator may require the person who was required to produce them to state, to the best of his knowledge and belief, where they are.
Sch. 2: transfer of functions from Secretary of State to Department of Justice (12.4.2010) by Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 4(1)(2), Sch. 1 (with arts. 28-31); S.I. 2010/977, art. 1(2)