Commentary on Sections Schedule 5: Police, customs and immigration powers Part 1: Director General: Commissioners’ powers exercisable under section 9(1)
187.Paragraph 1 sets out a further limitation on the Commissioner powers exercisable by the Director General. Section 9 sets out that the powers of the Commissioners are exercisable only in relation to any customs matter. Paragraph 1 provides that if a power of the Commissioners is exercisable in relation to both a customs matter and any other matter the power is exercisable by the Director General only in relation to a customs matter (as defined in section 9).
188.Paragraph 2 applies to an enactment if it provides for the issuing of warrants which authorise the Commissioners to exercise any power in relation to a customs matter. The paragraph provides that for the purpose of enabling the Director General to exercise that power in relation to a customs matter the enactment has effect as if the Director General were one of the Commissioners.
189.Paragraph 3 provides that the Director General cannot exercise the power of the Commissioners to consent to a disclosure of HMRC information under paragraph 2(1) of Schedule 7 or the power of the Commissioners to consent to a further disclosure of HMRC information under paragraph 2(2) of Schedule 7.