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To fulfil its monitoring functions, the SAU may need to gather information from businesses, public authorities or individuals. 皇冠体育app Subsidy Control Act 2022 gives the SAU the powers to issue a notice requiring a person to provide information or documents and to impose penalties where an information notice is not complied with. 皇冠体育app nature of the penalties that the SAU can apply is set out in section 43 of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 (UKIM Act).

Under section 42 of the UKIM Act, the SAU must publish and consult on a statement of policy in relation to its approach to enforcing its information gathering powers. 皇冠体育app SAU must have regard to this statement of policy when reaching decisions about what action to take for failure to comply with an information notice.

皇冠体育app CMA consulted on the draft statement of policy from 11 July 2022 to 10 August 2022. For more information about the consultation, visit the Draft statement of policy on the enforcement by the SAU of its information-gathering powers page.