Powers and Duties in Relation to Information Section 46: Power of OFT to require information generally
81.Section 46 inserts a new section 36B after the new section 36A (inserted into the 1974 Act by section 45). Section 36B allows OFT, on giving notice, to require a person to provide specified information and documents. The notice must set out OFT’s reasons for requiring the information and documents. OFT may require such information or documents from the holder of a standard licence and the original applicant for a group licence only if it is reasonably required for the exercise of OFT’s functions under the 1974 Act. It may require information from others if a specified act or omission has occurred (or OFT has reason to suspect that a specified act or omission has occurred) and the production of the information or document is reasonably required to enable OFT to take steps under Part 3 of the 1974 Act or to consider whether to do so. Those acts or omissions are specified in section 36B(6).