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<Text>An enforcing authority may give an information notice to any person for the purpose of—</Text>
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<Text>investigating compliance with any requirement that the authority has the function of enforcing, or</Text>
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<Text>exercising any other function of the authority under this Act or regulations made under it.</Text>
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<Text>An information notice is a notice requiring the person to give the authority specified information or specified documents within a specified period.</Text>
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<Text>An information notice may specify—</Text>
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<Text>how any information or document must be given;</Text>
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<Text>the form in which it must be given.</Text>
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<Text>An information notice may not require a person to give any information or document in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings.</Text>
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<Text>An information notice must—</Text>
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<Text>state that it is a notice given under this section, and</Text>
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<Text>explain the consequences of failing to comply with it.</Text>
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<Text>An enforcing authority that has given an information notice to a person may withdraw the notice at any time by giving a further notice to the person.</Text>
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<Text>Information that a person gives to an enforcing authority under this section is not admissible in evidence against the person in criminal proceedings except—</Text>
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<Text>in proceedings for an offence under section 101(1)(a),</Text>
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<Text>in proceedings for an offence under section 108 (providing false or misleading information),</Text>
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<Text>in proceedings for an offence of perverting the course of justice, or</Text>
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<Text>if in the proceedings—</Text>
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<Text>in giving evidence the person makes a statement inconsistent with the information, and</Text>
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<Text>evidence‍ relating to the information that was given is adduced, or a question relating to it is asked, by or on behalf of the person.</Text>
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