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Regulation 57 Provision of information to the Director General

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(1)

The Minister must provide the Director General with—

(a)

all such information, documents, evidence and other things as may be specified or described in these Regulations that the Director General may reasonably require for the purposes of the carrying out of any of the Director General’s functions; and

(b)

to the extent not falling within sub-paragraph (a), all such other information, documents, evidence and other things specified or described in a notification given by the Director General to the Minister under these Regulations as appear to the Director General to be required for the purposes of the carrying out of any of the Director General’s functions.

(2)

Anything falling to be provided by any person in pursuance of a requirement imposed under paragraph (1) must be provided in such form, in such manner and within such period as may be specified in—

(a)

the notification imposing the requirement; or

(b)

any other notification given by the Director General to that person for the purposes of this paragraph.

(3)

Nothing in this regulation requires the Minister—

(a)

to provide the Director General with any information, document, evidence or other thing, before the earliest time at which it is practicable for the Minister to do so; or

(b)

to provide any information, document, evidence or other thing in a case in which it is not, or it never becomes, practicable for the Minister to do so.