§ 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 ChancellorMy 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.