Commentary on Sections and Schedules Powers to require information New section 165C: Orders under section 165A(2)(d)
213.Section 165C sets out the conditions under which the Treasury may exercise the power given in section 165A(2)(d) to add a further category of persons who may be required to provide information under section 165A, and the procedure to be followed. Under subsection (1) the Treasury may only make such an order if it considers that the activities carried on by the prescribed person or the failure to carry on those activities (or any part of them), might pose a serious threat to the stability of the financial system.
214.Subsection (2) provides the general rule that an order made under section 165A(2)(d) will be subject to the normal affirmative resolution procedure, being laid in draft and approved by a resolution of each House.
215.Subsections (3) to (7) provide, as an exception to this rule, that where the Treasury considers that it is necessary, an order under section 165A(2)(d) will be subject to a modified form of the affirmative resolution procedure under which it must be laid before Parliament after being made and ceases to have effect at the end of a period of 28 days unless it is approved by a resolution of each House before the end of that period.
216.Subsection (8) ensures that no order under section 165A(2)(d) will be treated as a hybrid instrument for the purposes of the Standing Orders of either House of Parliament.