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(2) The application may be made ex parte to a judge in chambers.
(3) The application may specify information relating to—
(a) all accounts held by the person specified in the application for the order at the fi-
nancial institution so specified,
(b) a particular description, or particular descriptions, of accounts so held, or
(c) a particular account, or particular accounts, so held.
(4) The court may discharge or vary an account monitoring order on an applicationmade by—
(a) the person who applied for the order,
(b) a senior police officer,
(c) a constable authorised by a senior police officer to make the application,
(d) a senior customs officer,
(e) a customs officer authorised by a senior customs officer to make the application.
(5) Account monitoring orders have effect as if they were orders of the court.
Requests for information about banking transactions in Scotland for use abroad
37- Customer information
(1) This section applies where the Lord Advocate receives a request from an authority mentio-
ned 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 Lord Advocate to have the function of making requests of the kind to which this section
applies.
(3) The Lord Advocate may direct a procurator fiscal to apply for a customer information order.
(4) A customer information order is an order made by a sheriff 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.