{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-investigations-order-2013/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-investigations-order-2013/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/2605",
  "legislation_title": "The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Investigations) Order 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/proceeds-of-crime-act-2002-external-investigations-order-2013",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Production orders",
  "text": "(1) A High Court judge may, on an application made to them by an appropriate officer, make a production order if the judge is satisfied that each of the requirements for the making of the order is fulfilled.\n(2) The application for a production order must state that—\n(a) a person specified in the application is subject to an external investigation and the condition in article 3(2) is met in respect of the person; or\n(b) property specified in the application is subject to an external investigation and the condition in article 3(2) is met in respect of the property.\n(3) The application must also state that—\n(a) the order is sought for the purposes of the external investigation,\n(b) the order is sought in relation to material, or material of a description, specified in the application,\n(c) a person specified in the application appears to be in possession or control of the material.\n(4) A production order is an order either—\n(a) requiring the person the application for the order specifies as appearing to be in possession or control of the material to produce it to an appropriate officer for the appropriate officer to take away, or\n(b) requiring that person to give an appropriate officer access to the material,\nwithin the period stated in the order.\n(5) The period stated in a production order must be a period of seven days beginning with the day on which the order is made, unless it appears to the High Court judge by whom the order is made that a longer or shorter period would be appropriate in the particular circumstances.",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 6(2) substituted (30.11.2015) by The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (External Investigations) (Amendment) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/1751), arts. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in force at 11.11.2013, see art. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/2605/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:38:12.589733+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."
}