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(1)An authorised officer who has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person—
(a)is a person falling within subsection (2) below, and
(b)has or may have possession of or access to any information about any matter that is relevant for any one or more of the purposes mentioned in section 103A(2) above,
may, by written notice, require that person to provide all such information described in the notice as is information of which he has possession, or to which he has access, and which it is reasonable for the authorised officer to require for a purpose so mentioned.
(2)The persons who fall within this subsection are—
(a)any person who is or has been an employer or employee within the meaning of any provision made by or under the Contributions and Benefits Act;
(b)any person who is or has been a self-employed earner within the meaning of any such provision;
(c)any person who by virtue of any provision made by or under that Act falls, or has fallen, to be treated for the purposes of any such provision as a person within paragraph (a) or (b) above;
(d)any person who is carrying on, or has carried on, any business involving the supply of goods for sale to the ultimate consumers by individuals not carrying on retail businesses from retail premises;
(e)any person who is carrying on, or has carried on, any business involving the supply of goods or services by the use of work done or services performed by persons other than employees of his;
(f)any person who is carrying on, or has carried on, an agency or other business for the introduction or supply, to persons requiring them, of persons available to do work or to perform services;
(g)any district council acting in its capacity as an authority responsible for the granting of any licence;
(h)any person who is or has been a trustee or manager of a personal or occupational pension scheme;
(i)any person who is or has been liable to make a compensation payment or a payment to the Department under Article 8 of the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (payments in respect of recoverable benefits); and
(j)the servants and agents of any such person as is specified in any of paragraphs (a) to (i) above.
(3)The obligation of a person to provide information in accordance with a notice under this section shall be discharged only by the provision of that information, at such reasonable time and in such form as may be specified in the notice, to the authorised officer who—
(a)is identified by or in accordance with the terms of the notice, or
(b)has been identified, since the giving of the notice, by a further written notice given by the authorised officer who imposed the original requirement or another authorised officer.
(4)The power of an authorised officer under this section to require the provision of information shall include a power to require the production and delivery up and (if necessary) creation of, or of copies of or extracts from any such documents containing the information as may be specified or described in the notice imposing the requirement.
(5)No one shall be required under this section to provide any information (whether in documentary form or otherwise) that tends to incriminate either himself or, in the case of a person who is married, his spouse.
[F2(6)Provision may be made by order—
(a)adding any person to the list of persons falling within subsection (2A) above;
(b)removing any person from the list of persons falling within that subsection;
(c)modifying that subsection for the purpose of taking account of any change to the name of any person for the time being falling within that subsection.
(7)In this section—
“bank” means—
any institution for the time being authorised under a provision of the Banking Act 1987;
any person for the time being specified in any of paragraphs 2 to 10 of Schedule 2 to that Act (exempted persons);
any person for the time being entitled by virtue of the Banking Co-ordination (Second Council Directive) Regulations 1992 to accept deposits (within the meaning of that Act) in the United Kingdom;
“credit” includes a cash loan or any form of financial accommodation, including the cashing of a cheque;
“residential premises”, in relation to a supply of gas or electricity, means any premises which—
at the time of the supply were premises occupied wholly or partly for residential purposes, or
are premises to which that supply was provided as if they were so occupied; and
“telecommunications service” has the same meaning as in the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 103A-103C substituted for s. 104 (2.4.2001) by 2000 c. 4 (N.I.), s. 68(1), Sch. 6 para. 2 (with s. 66(6)); S.I. 2001/141, art. 2(1)(a), Sch. Pt. I
F2S. 103B(6)(7) inserted (23.12.2002 for specified purposes, otherwise prosp.) by Social Security Fraud Act (Northern-Ireland) 2001 (c. 17), s. 1(4); S.R. 2002/406, art. 2(1)(a)
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