Finance Act 1993

6(1)A notice under subsection (3) does not oblige a person to deliver or make available any document the whole of which originates more than six years before the date of the notice.U.K.

(2)Sub-paragraph (1) above does not apply where the notice is so expressed as to exclude the restrictions of that sub-paragraph; and it can only be so expressed where the Board has applied to a Special Commissioner for, and obtained, his approval.

(3)For the purpose of sub-paragraph (2) above, the Commissioner shall give approval only if satisfied, on the Board’s application, that there is reasonable ground for believing that tax has, or may have been, lost to the Crown owing to the fraud of the taxpayer.