(1) This section applies where either regulator has required or could require a person to whom subsection (2) applies ("the person concerned") to provide information or produce documents with respect to any matter ("the matter concerned").
(2) This subsection applies to -
(a) an authorised person ("A"),
(b) any other member of A's group,
(c) a partnership of which A is a member, or
(d) a person who has at any relevant time been a person falling within paragraph (a), (b) or (c),
who is, or was at the relevant time, carrying on a business.
(3) The regulator mentioned in subsection (1) may either -
(a) by notice in writing given to the person concerned, require the person concerned to provide the regulator with a report on the matter concerned, or
(b) itself appoint a person to provide the regulator with a report on the matter concerned.
(4) When acting under subsection (3)(a), the regulator may require the report to be in such form as may be specified in the notice.
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