Article 9 Disclosure of documents and other material

F1the complainant and respondent shall send or deliver to the Pensions Ombudsman by such date as the Pensions Ombudsman may specify a copy of any document or other material on which he intends to rely.

The respondent shall, subject to paragraph (3), in addition send to the Pensions Ombudsman a sufficient number of copies of any such document or other material to which paragraph (1) applies to enable the Pensions Ombudsman to provide a copy to any other party to the investigation.

The respondent need not send the additional copies referred to in paragraph (2) where the document or material or a copy thereof is already in the possession of the other parties or the Pensions Ombudsman already holds a sufficient number of copies.

Where a document or other material is obtained by the Pensions Ombudsman pursuant to a request made by him to any party to the investigation, the Pensions Ombudsman shall supply a copy to each of the other parties to the investigation.

It shall be a condition of the supply of any document under this rule that a party to the investigation shall use the document supplied only for the purposes of the investigation.