Enterprise Act 2002 (repealed)

226 Notices: procedureF1U.K.

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(1)This section applies to a notice given under section 224 or 225.

(2)The notice must—

(a)be in writing;

(b)specify the purpose for which the information is required.

(3)If the purpose is as mentioned in section 224(2)(a), (b) or (c) or 225(3)(a) the notice must specify the function concerned.

(4)A notice may specify the time within which and manner in which it is to be complied with.

(5)A notice may require the production of documents or any description of documents.

(6)An enforcer may take copies of any documents produced in compliance with such a requirement.

(7)A notice may be varied or revoked by a subsequent notice.

(8)But a notice must not require a person to provide any information or produce any document which he would be entitled to refuse to provide or produce—

(a)in proceedings in the High Court on the grounds of legal professional privilege;

(b)in proceedings in the Court of Session on the grounds of confidentiality of communications.

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F1Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]