(1)The Board may, by notice, require an approved regulator—
(a)to provide any information, or information of a description, specified in the notice, or
(b)to produce documents, or documents of a description, specified in the notice.
(2)A notice under subsection (1)—
(a)may specify the manner and form in which any information is to be provided;
(b)must specify the period within which any information is to be provided or document is to be produced;
(c)may require any information to be provided, or document to be produced, to the Board or to a person specified in the notice.
(3)The Board may, by notice, require a person representing the approved regulator to attend at a time and place specified in the notice to provide an explanation of any information provided or document produced under this section.
(4)The Board may pay to any person such reasonable costs as may be incurred by that person in connection with—
(a)the provision of any information, or the production of any document, by that person pursuant to a notice under subsection (1), or
(b)that person's compliance with a requirement imposed under subsection (3).
(5)The Board, or a person specified under subsection (2)(c), may take copies of or extracts from a document produced pursuant to a notice under subsection (1).
(6)For the purposes of this section and section 56, references to an approved regulator include a body which was, but is no longer, an approved regulator.