The Social Security Assistance (Investigation of Offences) (Scotland) Regulations 2020

Notices requiring information

6.—(1) A notice under regulation 4(2) must specify the period of time within which the information is to be provided.

(2) The time specified in a notice must be no fewer than a period of 10 working days beginning with the day after the day on which the notice is served.

(3) An authorised officer may vary a notice, but only to remove a requirement or to extend the time period for compliance.

(4) Where a notice is varied in accordance with paragraph (3), an authorised officer must serve the notice as varied on the body or person on whom the notice was originally served.

(5) Nothing in paragraph (3) restricts the ability of an authorised officer to serve a further notice requiring information.

(6) For the purpose of paragraph (2), a “working day” is a day other than—

(a) a Saturday,

(b) a Sunday, or

(c) a bank holiday in Scotland under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(1).

(1)

1971 c.80. Schedule 1, paragraph 2 sets out the Scottish bank holidays; it was amended by the St Andrew’s Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 (asp 2), section 1.