Word substituted by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), s. 77(2)

S. 44(6) substituted by Companies Act 1989 (c. 40, SIF 27), s. 77(2)

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44 Power to obtain information and require production of documents.(1)

The Secretary of State may require a company to furnish him, at specified times or intervals, with information about specified matters being, if he so requires, information verified in a specified manner.

(2)

The Secretary of State may—

(a)

require a company to produce, at such time and place as he may specify, such documents as he may specify; or

(b)

authorise any person, on producing (if required so to do) evidence of his authority, to require a company to produce to him forthwith any documents which that person may specify.

(3)

Where by virtue of subsection (2) above the Secretary of State or a person authorised by him has power to require the production of any documents from any company, the Secretary of State or that person shall have the like power to require production of those documents from any person who appears to him to be in possession of them; but where any person from whom such production is required claims a lien on documents produced by him, the production shall be without prejudice to the lien.

(4)

Any power conferred by or by virtue of subsections (2) and (3) above to require a company or other person to produce documents shall include power—

(a)

if the documents are produced—

(i)

to take copies of them or extracts from them; and

(ii)

to require that person, or any other person who is a present or past director, controller or auditor of, or is or was at any time employed by, the company in question, to provide an explanation of any of them;

(b)

if the documents are not produced, to require the person who was required to produce them to state, to the best of his knowledge and belief, where they are.

(5)

A statement made by a person in compliance with a requirement imposed by virtue of this section may be used in evidence against him.

(6)

In this section “document” includes information recorded in any form; and, in relation to information recorded otherwise than in legible form, the power to require its production includes power to require the production of a copy of the information in legible form.

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