Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013

Production of documents etc

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9(1)For the purposes of this Schedule, the CMA may by notice—

(a)require a person to produce to the CMA the documents specified or otherwise identified in the notice;

(b)require any person who carries on a business to supply to the CMA such estimates, forecasts, returns or other information as may be specified or described in the notice in relation to that business.

(2)The power to require the production of a document, or the supply of any estimate, forecast, return or other information, is a power to require its production or, as the case may be, supply—

(a)at the time and place specified in the notice, and

(b)in a legible form.

(3)No person is to be compelled under this paragraph to produce a document or supply an estimate, forecast, return or other information which the person could not be compelled to produce in civil proceedings in the High Court or Court of Session.

(4)An authorised member of the CMA may, for the purpose of the exercise of the functions of the CMA, make arrangements for copies to be taken of a document produced or an estimate, forecast, return or other information supplied to it under this paragraph.

(5)A notice for the purposes of this paragraph—

(a)may be issued on the CMA’s behalf by an authorised member of the CMA;

(b)must include information about the possible consequences of not complying with the notice (as set out in paragraph 13).