PART 1

CHILD POVERTY, PLAY AND PARTICIPATION
CHAPTER 3

INSPECTION, GUIDANCE AND DIRECTIONS

Inspection

Power to require information
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1
The Welsh Ministers may at any time require any person specified in subsection (3) to provide them with any information, documents, records (including personal records) or other items—
a
which relates or relate to the exercise by a local authority of its functions under sections 7 to 12, and
b
which the Welsh Ministers—
i
consider necessary or expedient to have for the purpose of any of their functions relating to the exercise by a local authority of its functions under sections 7 to 12, or
ii
consider necessary or expedient for any person exercising functions under sections 14 to 15 to have for the purpose of those functions.
2
The Welsh Ministers may share anything obtained under subsection (1) with any person exercising functions under sections 14 to 15.
3
The persons referred to in subsection (1) are—
a
a local authority;
b
any person with whom the authority have entered into arrangements—
i
in the exercise of any of its functions under sections 7 to 12, or
ii
in connection with any related activity.
4
The power in subsection (1) includes, in relation to information, documents or records kept by means of a computer, power to require provision of them in a legible form which can be taken away.
5
The power in subsection (1) does not include power to require the provision of information, documents or records in respect of which a claim to legal professional privilege could be maintained in legal proceedings.
6
Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with any requirement imposed by virtue of this section is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale.