PART 2COMPLAINTS AND MISCONDUCT

Provision of information to the Commission11

1

The Chief Executive must—

a

provide the Commission with all such information and documents specified or described in a notification given by the Commission to the Chief Executive; and

b

produce or deliver up to the Commission all such evidence and other things so specified or described,

as appear to the Commission to be required by it for the purposes of the carrying out of any of its functions.

2

Anything falling to be provided, produced or delivered up by the Chief Executive in pursuance of a requirement imposed under paragraph (1) must be provided, produced or delivered up in such form, in such manner and within such period as may be specified in—

a

the notification imposing the requirement; or

b

any subsequent notification given by the Commission to the Chief Executive for the purposes of this paragraph.

3

Nothing in this regulation requires the Chief Executive

a

to provide the Commission with any information or document, or to produce or deliver up any other thing, before the earliest time at which it is practicable for the Chief Executive to do so; or

b

to provide, produce or deliver up anything at all in a case in which it never becomes practicable for the Chief Executive to do so.

4

A requirement imposed by any notification under this regulation may authorise or require information or documents to which it relates to be provided to the Commission electronically.

5

Where the Commission or any person acting on the Commission’s behalf obtains information from the Chief Executive in the course of performing a function under these Regulations, that information—

a

may not be used for any purpose other than in the performance of a function under these Regulations or as otherwise prescribed by law; and

b

may not be disclosed except as permitted under these Regulations or as otherwise prescribed by law.