Part 8Investigations
C7Chapter 2England and Wales and Northern Ireland
Production orders
I1C4C3C5C6C2C1350 Government departments
1
A production order may be made in relation to material in the possession or control of an authorised government department.
2
An order so made may require any officer of the department (whether named in the order or not) who may for the time being be in possession or control of the material to comply with it.
3
An order containing such a requirement must be served as if the proceedings were civil proceedings against the department.
4
If an order contains such a requirement—
a
the person on whom it is served must take all reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of the officer concerned;
b
any other officer of the department who is in receipt of the order must also take all reasonable steps to bring it to the attention of the officer concerned.
5
If the order is not brought to the attention of the officer concerned within the period stated in the order (in pursuance of section 345(4)) the person on whom it is served must report the reasons for the failure to—
a
a judge entitled to exercise the jurisdiction of the Crown Court or (in Northern Ireland) a Crown Court judge, in the case of an order made for the purposes of a confiscation investigation or a money laundering investigation F2, a money laundering investigation F4or a detained cash investigationF4, a detained cash investigation, a detained property investigation or a frozen funds investigation;
6
An authorised government department is a government department, or a Northern Ireland department, which is an authorised department for the purposes of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 (c. 44).
Pt. 8 Ch. 2: power to modify conferred (20.3.2015) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), ss. 47, 61(2); S.I. 2015/813, art. 2(b)