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32- Customer information
(1) This section applies where the Secretary of State receives a request from an authority men-
tioned in subsection (2) for customer information to be obtained in relation to a person who
appears to him to be subject to an investigation in a participating country into serious criminal
conduct.
(2) The authority referred to in subsection (1) is the authority in that country which appears to
the Secretary of State to have the function of making requests of the kind to which this section
applies.
(3) The Secretary of State may—
(a) direct a senior police officer to apply, or arrange for a constable to apply, for a cus-
tomer information order,
(b) direct a senior customs officer to apply, or arrange for a customs officer to apply, for
such an order.
(4) A customer information order is an order made by a judge that a financial institution speci-
fied in the application for the order must, on being required to do so by notice in writing given by
the applicant for the order, provide any such customer information as it has relating to the person
specified in the application.
(5) A financial institution which is required to provide information under a customer informa-
tion order must provide the information to the applicant for the order in such manner, and at or
by such time, as the applicant requires.
(6) Section 364 of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (c. 29) (meaning of customer information),
except subsections (2)(f ) and (3)(i), has effect for the purposes of this section as if this section were
included in Chapter 2 of Part 8 of that Act.
(7) A customer information order has effect in spite of any restriction on the disclosure of
information (however imposed).
(8) Customer information obtained in pursuance of a customer information order is to be gi-
ven to the Secretary of State and sent by him to the authority which made the request.
33- Making, varying or discharging customer information orders
(1) A judge may make a customer information order, on an application made to him pursuant