Postal Services Act 2000

47 Power of the Commission to require information

(1) The Commission may, for any relevant purpose, serve notice on any person requiring him—

(a) to produce any documents which are specified or described in the notice and are in that person’s custody or under his control, and

(b) to produce them at a time and place so specified and to a person so specified.

(2) The Commission may, for any relevant purpose, serve notice on any person who carries on any business requiring him—

(a) to supply to the Commission such information as may be specified or described in the notice, and

(b) to supply it at a time and place and in a form and manner so specified and to a person so specified.

(3) The person to whom any document is produced in accordance with a notice under this section may, for any relevant purpose, copy the document so produced.

(4) No person shall be required under this section—

(a) to produce any documents which he could not be compelled to produce in civil proceedings before the court, or

(b) to supply any information which he could not be compelled to supply in evidence in such proceedings.

(5) Any reference in this section to the production of a document includes a reference to the production of a legible and intelligible copy of information recorded otherwise than in legible form.

(6) In this section—

• “the court”—

  (a)

  in relation to England and Wales or Northern Ireland, means the High Court, and

  (b)

  in relation to Scotland, means the Court of Session,

• “relevant purpose” means any purpose connected with—

  (a)

  the investigation of an offence under section 6 or any proceedings for such an offence, or

  (b)

  the exercise of the Commission’s functions under section 22, 23, 24, 30, 42 or 44(4) or (5).