78.—(1) A collecting authority may request, by notice given in writing, a relevant person to supply to it such relevant information as is specified in the notice.
(2) Information requested under paragraph (1) must be supplied by the person requested to supply it if it is in that person’s possession or control, and it must be so supplied within 21 days of the day on which the request is made.
(3) A relevant person may, so far as that person does not have the power to do so apart from under this regulation, supply relevant information to a collecting authority even if it is not requested to supply the information.
(4) Information is relevant information for the purposes of this regulation if it is information which the collecting authority requires for the purposes of carrying out its functions under these Regulations.
(5) In this regulation “relevant person” means—
(a)a charging authority;
(b)a local planning authority (within the meaning of TCPA 1990);
(c)the Secretary of State; or
(d)the Infrastructure Planning Commission.