Legal Services Act 2007

93 Information

(1) The relevant licensing authority in relation to a licensed body may by notice require a person within subsection (2)—

(a) to provide information, or information of a description, specified in the notice, or

(b) produce documents, or documents of a description, specified in the notice,

for the purpose of enabling the licensing authority to ascertain whether the terms of the licensed body’s licence are being, or have been, complied with.

(2) The persons are—

(a) the licensed body;

(b) any manager or employee (or former manager or employee) of the licensed body;

(c) any non-authorised person who has an interest or an indirect interest, or holds a material interest, in the licensed body.

(3) 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 the information is to be provided or the document produced;

(c) may require the information to be provided, or the document to be produced, to the licensing authority or to a person specified in the notice.

(4) The licensing authority may, by notice, require a person within subsection (2) (or a representative of such a person) 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.

(5) The licensing authority 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 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 (4).

(6) The licensing authority, or a person specified under subsection (3)(c) in a notice, may take copies of or extracts from a document produced pursuant to a notice under subsection (1).

(7) For the purposes of this section and section 94, references to a licensed body include a body which was, but is no longer, a licensed body.