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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 June 2023 - onwards

Regulation 5A Power of Bank to require information, records, plans, etc.

(1) Where the Bank considers it necessary to do so for the purposes of its functions and duties under the SEPA Regulation or these Regulations, as the case may be, it may, by notice in writing given to a person who is a payment service provider, a payee or a payer, require the person to -

(a) provide the information,

(b) provide the records, or

(c) prepare and provide the forecasts, plans, accounts or other documents,

specified in the notice, to the Bank.

(2) A person to whom a notice is given under paragraph (1) shall comply with the requirement -

(a) at such time or times, or within such period, as may be specified in the notice, and

(b) at such place as may be so specified.

(3) The Bank may require that information, records, forecasts, plans, accounts or other documents provided in compliance with a requirement under paragraph (1) be certified or attested as to their authenticity or correctness in such manner as the Bank may reasonably require, including by statutory declaration.

(4) The Bank may take copies of, or extracts from, any records or other documents provided in compliance with a requirement under paragraph (1).