Commentary on provisions of Act Section 23: Power of Secretary of State Section 105Z27: Power of Secretary of State to require information etc
Subsection (1) gives the Secretary of State the power to require a person to provide such information as may be reasonably required for the purpose of exercising the Secretary of State’s functions under sections 105Z1 to 105Z26.
	Subsection (2) lists the persons who may be required to provide information, namely persons who are or have been providers or any other person who appears to have information relevant to the Secretary of State’s functions under sections 105Z1 to 105Z26.
	Subsection (3) describes what the Secretary of State may require a person falling under subsection (2) to do. This includes producing, generating, obtaining, collecting, retaining, processing, collating or analysing information.
	Subsection (4) describes the type of information which the Secretary of State can require persons to provide. It can include, among other things, information about the use or proposed use of goods, services or facilities supplied by a particular person or information about goods, services or facilities proposed to be supplied by a particular person.
	Subsection (6) allows the Secretary of State to specify how and when persons must comply with a requirement to provide information.