Article 55 Second article amending section 35A of the Act

After subsection (6) of section 35A^f1 (General Council’s power to require disclosure of information) insert the following subsections—

“(6A)

If a person fails to supply any information or produce any document within 14 days of his being required to do so under subsection (1) above, the General Council may seek an order of the relevant court requiring the information to be supplied or the document to be produced.

(6B)

For the purposes of subsection (6A), “the relevant court” means the county court or, in Scotland, the sheriff in whose sheriffdom is situated the address—

(a)

which is shown in the register as the address of the person concerned; or

(b)

which would have been so shown if the person concerned were registered.”.