ABSTRACT
The new power ensures that the National Crime Agency can obtain the information it needs to conduct effective intelligence analysis. A further information order can be sought in England, Wales and Northern Ireland only by the National Crime Agency, and only by the procurator fiscal in Scotland. A further information order can be made only where the respondent, as holder of the information, is carrying on a business in the regulated sector. An application for a further information order may be heard and determined in private. For the purposes of subsection, ‘external request’ means a request made by an authority of a foreign country which has responsibility in that country for carrying out investigations into whether a corresponding money laundering offence has been committed. There is power for the maximum sum to be altered to take account of changes in the value of money in due course.
