HL Deb 24 October 1990 vol 522 c1481

203 Schedule 8, page 90, line 27, at end insert:

'Duty to comply with requests for information

7A.—(1) Where the Advisory Committee is carrying out an investigation under paragraph 7 it may require the approved body concerned to provide it with such information, including copies of such documents, as it may reasonably require for the purposes of the investigation.

(2) No person shall be required under sub-paragraph (1) to provide any information or produce any copy of a document, which he could not be compelled to provide or produce in civil proceedings before a court.

(3) Where an approved body fails, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a request made to it by the Committee under sub-paragraph (1), paragraph 6(2) (c) shall be taken to have been satisfied in relation to that body.'.

The Lord Chancellor

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 203. I spoke to this amendment when moving Amendment No. 33.

Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 203.—(The Lord Chancellor.)

On Question, Motion agreed to.

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