Electricity Act 2001 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Competition
55. Power when conducting investigation
Feedback & supportFor the purposes of an investigation under section 54, the Authority may, by written notice to any person, require that person to produce to the Authority a specified document, or to provide the Authority with specified information, which the Authority considers relates to any matter relevant to the investigation.
A notice under subsection (1) must indicate —
the subject matter and purpose of the investigation; and
the nature of the offences created by sections 61, 62 and 63.
The Authority may also specify in the notice —
the time and place at which any document is to be produced or any information is to be provided; and
the manner and form in which it is to be produced or provided.
The power under this section to require a person to produce a document includes the power —
if the document is produced —
to take copies of it or extracts from it; and
to require such person, or any person who is a present or past officer of the firstmentioned person, or is or was at any time employed by the firstmentioned person, to provide an explanation of the document; or
if the document is not produced, to require such person to state, to the best of the person’s knowledge and belief, where it is.
In subsection (1), “specified” means —
specified, or described, in the notice; or
falling within a category which is specified, or described, in the notice.