Commentary on provisions of the Act Miscellaneous Section 63: Provision of advice and assistance by or to an appointed person
Subsection (1) enables the Secretary of State to obtain advice and assistance from a person appointed under section 16. The Secretary of State may require the appointed person to provide advice or assistance to another person but the appointed person may refuse to provide such advice until they are paid reasonable charges for provision of that advice or assistance (subsection (3)). Subsection (4) entitles the appointed person to recover its costs of providing such advice. Subsections (6) and (7) give the Secretary of State a power to provide advice and assistance to an appointed person on request and to recover the reasonable expenses for providing the advice and assistance.