http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2009/1/section/83ZBBanking Act 2009An Act to make provision about banking.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-02-20Expert Participation2026-01-19 Banking Act 2009s. 4(8A) (8B)Financial Services Act 2012s. 96(3)Sch. 20s. 122(3)Banking Act 2009s. 8(2)(d) and wordFinancial Services Act 2012s. 96(4)(b)Sch. 20s. 122(3) Part 1Chapter 483ZB1This section applies where the Bank of England has required or could require a person to whom subsection (2) applies (“the person concerned”) to provide information or produce documents with respect to any matter (“the matter concerned”) under section 83ZA.2This subsection applies to—aa bank (“B”),ba member of B’s group,ca partnership of which B is a member, orda person who has at any relevant time been a person falling within paragraph (a), (b) or (c),who is, or was at the relevant time, carrying on a business.3The Bank of England may either—aby notice in writing given to the person concerned, require that person to provide the Bank with a report on the matter concerned, orbitself appoint a person to provide the Bank with a report on the matter concerned.4When acting under subsection (3)(a), the Bank may require the report to be in such form as may be specified in the notice.5The Bank must give notice of an appointment under subsection (3)(b) to the person concerned.6The person appointed to make a report—amust be a person appearing to the Bank to have the skills necessary to make a report on the matter concerned, andbwhere the appointment is to be made by the person concerned, must be a person nominated or approved by the Bank.7It is the duty of—athe person concerned, andbany person who is providing (or who has at any time provided) services to the person concerned in relation to the matter concerned,to give the person appointed to prepare a report all such assistance as the appointed person may reasonably require.8The obligation imposed by subsection (7) is enforceable, on the application of the Bank, by an injunction or, in Scotland, by an order for specific performance under section 45 of the Court of Session Act 1988.9The Bank may, in relation to an appointment under subsection (3)(b), require B to pay to the Bank a fee to cover the expenses incurred by the Bank in relation to the appointment.10In this section “group” has the meaning given by section 3(2)(b).Pt. 1 restricted (7.1.2010) by Banking Act 2009 (Exclusion of Insurers) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/35), arts. 1, 2Pt. 1: power to amend conferred (1.3.2014) by Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 (c. 33), ss. 17(3)(f), 148(5); S.I. 2014/377, art. 2(1)(b), Sch. Pt. 2Pt. 1 Ch. 4 inserted (1.1.2015) by The Bank Recovery and Resolution Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3329), arts. 1(2), 97