224 OFTF1U.K.
(1)The OFT may for any of the purposes mentioned in subsection (2) give notice to any person requiring the person to provide it with the information specified in the notice.
(2)The purposes are—
(a)to enable the OFT to exercise or to consider whether to exercise any function it has under this Part;
(b)to enable a designated enforcer to which section 225 does not apply to consider whether to exercise any function it has under this Part;
(c)to enable a Community enforcer to consider whether to exercise any function it has under this Part;
(d)to ascertain whether a person has complied with or is complying with an enforcement order, an interim enforcement order or an undertaking given under section 217(9), 218(10) or 219.
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]