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Version date: 1 January 2015 - onwards

83ZB. Reports by skilled persons

(1) This section applies where the Bank of England 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") under section 83ZA.

(2) This subsection applies to -

(a) a bank ("B"),

(b) a member of B's group,

(c) a partnership of which B 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 Bank of England may either -

(a) by notice in writing given to the person concerned, require that person to provide the Bank with a report on the matter concerned, or

(b) itself appoint a person to provide the Bank with a report on the matter concerned.

(4) When acting under subsection (3)(a), the Bank may require the report to be in such form as may be specified in the notice.

(5) The Bank must give notice of an appointment under subsection (3)(b) to the person concerned.

(6) The person appointed to make a report -