[83ZA.InformationU.K.
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(1)This section applies only to information and documents reasonably required in connection with the exercise by the Bank of England of functions conferred by or under—
(a)this Part, or
(b)any other enactment giving effect to the resolution and recovery directive.
(2)The Bank of England may, by notice in writing given to a bank or banking group company, require the bank or banking group company—
(a)to provide specified information or information of a specified description, or
(b)to produce specified documents or documents of a specified description.
(3)The information or documents must be provided or produced—
(a)before the end of such reasonable period as may be specified, and
(b)at such place as may be specified.
(4)An officer who has written authorisation from the Bank of England to do so may require a bank or banking group company without delay—
(a)to provide the officer with specified information or information of a specified description, or
(b)to produce to the officer specified documents or documents of a specified description.
(5)The Bank of England may require any information provided under this section to be provided in such form as it may reasonably require.
(6)The Bank of England may require—
(a)any information provided, whether in a document or otherwise, to be verified in such manner, or
(b)any document produced to be authenticated in such manner,
as it may reasonably require.
(7)The powers conferred by subsections (2) and (4) may also be exercised by the Bank to impose requirements on a person who is connected with a bank.
(8)“Officer” means an officer of the Bank of England, and includes a member of the Bank’s staff or an agent of the Bank.
(9)“Specified” means—
(a)in subsections (2) and (3), specified in the notice, and
(b)in subsection (4), specified in the authorisation.
(10)For the purposes of this section, a person is connected with a bank if that person is or has at any relevant time been—
(a)a member of that bank’s group,
(b)a controller of that bank (within the meaning of section 422 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000),
(c)any other member of a partnership of which that bank is a member, or
(d)in relation to that bank, a person mentioned in Part 1 of Schedule 15 to the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (reading references in that Part to the authorised person as references to the bank).
(11)In subsection (10)(a) “group” has the meaning given by section 3(2)(b).]