Section 368Z17: Power to demand information

Communications Act 2003 · 2003 c. 21View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 4C: Online advertising of less healthy food and drink

The appropriate regulatory authority may give a person a notice demanding information that the authority require for the purpose of carrying out their functions under this Part.

The notice may relate to any information that the person appears to have or be able to generate.

A notice under this section must—

describe the required information,
fix a reasonable period within which the information is to be provided, and
set out the appropriate regulatory authority's reasons for requiring it.

A notice under this section may specify the manner in which the information is to be provided.

The appropriate regulatory authority may not require the provision of information under this section unless they have given the person from whom it is required an opportunity of making representations to them about the matters appearing to them to provide grounds for making the request.

Section 368Z15 applies in relation to a failure to comply with a demand for information imposed under this section as if that failure were a contravention of section 368Z14.

In this section "information" includes copies of advertisements.

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