Part 8

Investigations
Chapter 2

England and Wales and Northern Ireland

Customer information orders

Supplementary
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1
An application for a customer information order may be made ex parte to a judge in chambers.
2
Rules of court may make provision as to the practice and procedure to be followed in connection with proceedings relating to customer information orders.
3
An application to discharge or vary a customer information order may be made to the court by—
a
the person who applied for the order;
b
any person affected by the order.
4
The court—
a
may discharge the order;
b
may vary the order.
5
If an accredited financial investigator, a constable or a customs officer applies for a customer information order, an application to discharge or vary the order need not be by the same accredited financial investigator, constable or customs officer.
6
References to a person who applied for a customer information order must be construed accordingly.
7
An accredited financial investigator, a constable or a customs officer may not make an application for a customer information order or an application to vary such an order unless he is a senior appropriate officer or he is authorised to do so by a senior appropriate officer.
8
Subsections (2) to (6) do not apply to orders made in England and Wales for the purposes of a civil recovery investigation.