{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2008/schedule-36/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2008/schedule-36/paragraph-8.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2008/9",
  "legislation_title": "Finance Act 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/finance-act-2008",
  "path": "schedule/36/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where an information notice requires a person to produce a document, the person may comply with the notice by producing a copy of the document, subject to any conditions or exceptions set out in regulations made by the Commissioners.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply where—\n(a) the notice requires the person to produce the original document, or\n(b) an officer of Revenue and Customs subsequently makes a request in writing to the person for the original document.\n(3) Where an officer of Revenue and Customs requests a document under sub-paragraph (2)(b), the person to whom the request is made must produce the document—\n(a) within such period, and\n(b) at such time and by such means (if any),\nas is reasonably requested by the officer.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 8 applied (20.3.2014) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 5(1) of the amending Act) by 2004 c. 12, s. 153A(3) (as inserted by Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), Sch. 7 paras. 3, 5(1))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 8 applied (with effect in accordance with Sch. 7 para. 8(1) of the amending Act) by 2004 c. 12, s. 159A(2) (as inserted by Finance Act 2014 (c. 26), Sch. 7 paras. 7, 8(3))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 8 applied (17.1.2017) by Savings (Government Contributions) Act 2017 (c. 2), s. 6(2)(3), Sch. 2 para. 19(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 8 applied (17.1.2017) by Savings (Government Contributions) Act 2017 (c. 2), s. 6(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 10(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C5",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 8 applied (17.1.2017) by Savings (Government Contributions) Act 2017 (c. 2), s. 6(2)(3), Sch. 1 para. 6(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C6",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 8 applied (with effect in accordance with Sch. 5 para. 25(1)(2) of the amending Act) by 2010 c. 8, Sch. 7A para. 66(1) (as inserted by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 5 para. 2 (with Sch. 5 para. 28))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C7",
      "text": "Sch. 36 applied (with modifications) (with effect in accordance with Sch. 16 para. 62 of the amending Act) by Finance (No. 2) Act 2017 (c. 32), Sch. 16 paras. 40-43"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C8",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 8 applied (18.3.2026) by Finance Act 2026 (c. 11), s. 206(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 36 para. 8 in force at 1.4.2009 by S.I. 2009/404, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2017/32",
      "affecting_title": "Finance (No. 2) Act 2017"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2017/32",
      "affecting_title": "Finance (No. 2) Act 2017"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2008/9/schedule/36/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:06.707101+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}