# The Children’s Commissioner for Wales Regulations 2001, Regulation 8: Provision of information in connection with an examination


(1) In conducting an examination the Commissioner may—
(a) require a person to whom paragraph (2) applies to provide any information which appears to the Commissioner to be necessary for the purposes of the examination in question;
(b) require such a person or such other person as may be accountable for the said information, to provide the Commissioner with an explanation of or assistance in relation to—
(i) any matters which are the subject of the examination, or
(ii) any information provided under sub-paragraph (a).
(2) The persons to whom this paragraph applies are—
(a) In relation to the provision of regulated children’s services in Wales, the providers or former providers of such services, employees or former employees of such providers or former providers and persons who work or worked for such providers or former providers in a voluntary capacity and members and employees and former members and employees of the Assembly;
(b) (i) Members (including elected members), directors, executives, officers and employees of a relevant person, former members, directors, executives, officers and employees of a relevant person and persons who work or worked for a relevant person in a voluntary capacity;
(ii) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (i) “relevant person” (“person perthnasol”) means the Assembly, any person mentioned in Schedule 2A to the Act, any other person exercising a function of the Assembly or of any person mentioned in the said Schedule 2A, or any person providing services to or in respect of children in Wales on behalf of or under arrangements with any person mentioned in Schedule 2B to the Act.
(c) The receiver or manager of the property, the liquidator or provisional liquidator or the trustee in bankruptcy, as the case may be, of a person who provides or provided services described in paragraphs (a) or (b).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2001/2787/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/childrens-commissioner-for-wales-regulations-2001/regulation-8
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