Section 56A Giving information by electronic means: EnglandF1

The regulator must establish and maintain a facility (the “facility”) to enable a specified person to give specified relevant information to another person by electronic communication.

The Secretary of State may by regulations require or authorise a specified person to use the facility when giving specified relevant information to another person.

Any information given to a person in accordance with regulations made under subsection (2) is to be treated for the purposes of section 56B (requirement to keep register) as also having been given to the regulator.

Regulations under this section may require a person who is given specified relevant information otherwise than through the facility to give that information to the regulator using the facility.

Regulations under this section may make provision treating specified relevant information that is given using the facility as having been given in the prescribed form for the purposes of this Part.

In this section—

• “relevant information” means information that is required or authorised to be given by this Part or regulations made under it;

• “specified” means specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State under this section.

In this section and section 56B—

• “information” includes documents;

• “documents” includes notices, certificates, orders, consents, demands and plans.

The Secretary of State may make regulations under this section only in relation to England.