Part IV Reorganisation of the Post Office
Supplementary provisions
78 Information requirements on F1certain relevant companies.
F3A1
This section applies to—
a
a relevant company that is wholly owned by the Crown and does not have a parent company, and
b
the original holding company if it is wholly owned by the Crown.
1
The Treasury may F2serve notice on a company to which this section applies—
a
requiring it to supply to the Treasury such information—
i
as the Treasury may reasonably require for the performance of their functions in relation to public sector finance, and
ii
as may be specified or described in the notice, and
b
specifying the time, place, manner and form in which any such information is to be supplied and the person to whom it is to be supplied.
2
If a person makes default in complying with a notice under subsection (1), the court may, on the application of the Treasury, make such order as the court considers appropriate for requiring the default to be made good.
3
Any such order may, in particular, provide that all the costs or expenses of and incidental to the application shall be borne—
a
by the person in default, or
b
if officers of a company are responsible for its default, by those officers.
4
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.