The Central Bank Reform Act 2010 is amended -

(a) in section 3 by inserting the following definitions:

"‘authorised officer’ means a person appointed by the Bank under Part 5 to be an authorised officer;

‘financial services legislation’ means -

(a) the designated enactments,

(b) the designated statutory instruments, and

(c) the Central Bank Acts 1942 to 2012 and statutory instruments made under those Acts;",

and

(b) by inserting the following after section 53:

"Part 4 Overseas Regulators

54. Co-operation with overseas regulators.

(1) In this section ‘overseas regulator’ means an authority in a jurisdiction other than that of the State duly authorised to perform functions similar to any one or more of the statutory functions of the Bank.

(2) At the request of an overseas regulator to do so in relation to any matter, the Bank may -

(a) require information on the matter about which the Bank has required or could require the provision of information or the production of documents under any provision of financial services legislation, or

(b) authorise one or more than one authorised officer to exercise any of his or her powers for the purposes of investigating the matter.