ob体育鈥檚 document production guidelines
This is Information Sheet 242 (INFO 242). It provides an overview of ob体育鈥檚 document production guidelines.
The guidelines are designed to help those who produce books to ob体育 in connection with its investigations or surveillance activities, whether on a voluntary basis or in response to ob体育鈥檚 compulsive powers. 鈥楤ooks鈥� are defined in the guidelines as including documents and any other record of information in both electronic and/or hard copy.
ob体育 has consulted with law firms and financial institutions about these guidelines and is thankful for their feedback.
This information sheet explains:
- how the guidelines will help you
- why we need document production guidelines
- how to use the guidelines.
How the guidelines will help you
By producing books using the methods set out in the guidelines, you can expect to reduce your time and costs. If you use the methods in the guidelines, ob体育鈥檚 time and costs in reviewing the books produced to it are also likely to reduce.
If you do not produce books in accordance with the guidelines, ob体育 may ask you to produce the books again following the guidelines. This will likely cause ob体育 to take more time and incur more costs for you and your stakeholders.
The guidelines also describe how ob体育 can help you by discussing both the scope of a notice and the method by which books should be produced to ob体育.
Why we need document production guidelines
ob体育 may give you a written notice that requires you to produce books (notice to produce). We may also ask you to provide books voluntarily. If you need to produce books in response to a written notice or voluntarily, our guidelines make clear how we prefer you to produce your books.
How to use the guidelines
They set out:
- our preferred methods for producing books to ob体育 in electronic and hard copy form
- how ob体育 requests books to be produced when using a litigation support system.
The precise details of these methods can be found in the document production guidelines. The guidelines encourage you to produce electronic books over hard copy books in almost all cases.
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Important notice
Please note that this information sheet is a summary giving you basic information about a particular topic. It does not cover the whole of the relevant law regarding that topic, and it is not a substitute for professional advice. We encourage you to seek your own professional advice to find out how the applicable laws apply to you, as it is your responsibility to determine your obligations.
You should also note that because this information sheet avoids legal language wherever possible, it might include some generalisations about the application of the law. Some provisions of the law referred to have exceptions or important qualifications. In most cases, your particular circumstances must be taken into account when determining how the law applies to you.
Information sheets provide concise guidance on a specific process or compliance issue or an overview of detailed guidance.
This information sheet was issued in March 2020.