# The Credit Unions (Northern Ireland) Order 1985, Article 57: Production of documents and provision of information

Extent: N.I.

(1) The FCA may at any time, by notice in writing served on a credit union or on any person who is or has been an officer of a credit union, require that credit union or person to produce to the FCA such books, accounts and other documents relating to the business of the credit union, and to furnish to it such other information relating to that business, as the FCA considers necessary for the exercise of its powers under this Order; and any such notice may contain a requirement that any information to be furnished in accordance with the notice shall be verified by a statutory declaration.
(2) The FCA may, if the FCA considers it just, direct that all or any of the expenses incurred by it in exercising its powers under paragraph (1) in relation to any credit union shall, either wholly or to such extent as he may determine, be defrayed out of the funds of the credit union or by the officers or former officers of the credit union or any of them; and any sum which any credit union or other person is required by such a direction to pay shall be a debt recoverable summarily by the FCA from that credit union or person
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(4) Any credit union or other person failing, without reasonable excuse, to comply with a notice under paragraph (1) . . . shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1985/1205/article/57 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/credit-unions-northern-ireland-order-1985/article-57
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