Part 1 Water Industry Commissioner and Customer Panels

4 Power of the Commissioner to require information

(1)

Scottish Water must, on being requested to do so by the F1Commission, provide the F1Commission with such information held by it as the F1Commission may reasonably seek in the exercise of the F1Commission's functions.

F2(2)

Subsection (1) does not authorise the Commission to require the disclosure of anything which a person would be entitled to refuse to disclose on grounds of confidentiality in proceedings in the Court of Session.

(3)

Where Scottish Water considers that it is entitled to withhold information from the Commission—

(a)

because it is not reasonably sought, or

(b)

by virtue of subsection (2),

it must intimate that fact to the Commission in writing.