The Commissioner for Older People in Wales Regulations 2007

PART VII Miscellaneous

Financial years

18.—(1) For the purposes of paragraph 22 of Schedule 1 to the Act the following periods are specified —

(a) in relation to the first financial year, the period from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008

(b) in relation to each subsequent financial year, the period from 1 April to 31 March.

Information

19.  Where information required to be provided under paragraph (1) of regulation 4, paragraph (1) of regulation 11 or paragraph (1) of regulation 15 consists of information held by means of a computer or in any other form, the Commissioner may require any person having charge of, or otherwise concerned with the operation of, the computer or other device holding that information to make the information available, or produce the information, in a visible and legible form.

20.  Where a person provides information to the Commissioner pursuant to paragraph (1) of regulation 11 or attends before the Commissioner pursuant to regulation 12, the Commissioner may, if he or she thinks fit, pay to that person —

(a) sums in respect of expenses properly incurred by the person, and

(b) allowances by way of compensation for the loss of their time,

in accordance with such scales, and subject to such conditions, as may be determined by the Commissioner.