HL Deb 27 November 2000 vol 619 c1194

71E.—(1) The Commission may apply to a designated county court or, in Scotland, a sheriff court for an order requiring a person falling within Schedule 1A to furnish any information required by a compliance notice if—

  1. (a) the person fails to furnish the information to the Commission in accordance with the notice; or
  2. (b) the Commission have reasonable cause to believe that the person does not intend to furnish the information.

(2) If the Commission consider that a person has not, within three months of the date on which a compliance notice was served on that person, complied with any requirement of the notice for that person to comply with a duty imposed by an order under section 71(2), the Commission may apply to a designated county court or, in Scotland, a sheriff court for an order requiring the person to comply with the requirement of the notice.

(3) If the court is satisfied that the application is well-founded, it may grant the order in the terms applied for or in more limited terms.

(4) The sanctions in section 71D and this section shall be the only sanctions for breach of any duty imposed by an order under section 71(2), but without prejudice to the enforcement under section 57 or otherwise of any other provision of this Act (where the breach is also a contravention of that provision)."

(5) Schedule (Bodies and other persons subject to general statutory duty) (which inserts Schedule 1A into the 1976 Act) is to have effect.").

Lord Bassam of Brighton

My Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 6.