Disclosure of informationU.K.
5(1)The Director General must—U.K.
(a)provide to a policing inspectorate such information and documents specified or described in a notification given by the inspectorate to the Director General, and
(b)produce or deliver up to the inspectorate all such evidence and other things so specified or described,
as appear to the inspectorate to be required for the purposes of the exercise of an NCA inspection function.
(2)Anything that the Director General is obliged to provide, produce or deliver up by virtue of a requirement imposed under sub-paragraph (1) must be provided, produced or delivered up in such form and manner, and within such period, as may be specified—
(a)in the notification imposing the requirement, or
(b)in any subsequent notification given by the inspectorate to the Director General.
(3)Nothing in this paragraph requires the Director General—
(a)to comply with an obligation imposed under sub-paragraph (1) before the earliest time at which it is practicable to do so, or
(b)to comply at all with any such obligation if it never becomes practicable to do so.
(4)An NCA officer may disclose information to any policing inspectorate for the purposes of the exercise by any policing inspectorate of an NCA inspection function.
(5)The Secretary of State may, by regulations, make—
(a)further provision about the disclosure of information under sub-paragraph (1) or (4);
(b)provision about the further disclosure of information that has been disclosed under sub-paragraph (1) or (4).
(6)Such regulations may, in particular—
(a)modify any provision of Schedule 7 in its application to such a disclosure, or
(b)disapply any such provision from such a disclosure.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 6 para. 5(1)-(4) in force at 7.10.2013 by S.I. 2013/1682, art. 3(q)
I2Sch. 6 para. 5(5)(6) in force at 8.5.2013 by S.I. 2013/1042, art. 2(m)