s 6 Annual report, information and returns.
(1) The Corporation shall, as soon as possible after the end of each financial year of the Corporation, make a full report to the Minister on the exercise and performance by it of its functions during that year, and he shall lay a copy of the report before each House of Parliament. (2) The report for any year shall set out any direction given to the Corporation under section 5 above during that year, unless the Minister has notified to the Corporation his opinion that it is against the interests of national security so to do. (3) The Corporation shall furnish to the Minister such information and returns relating to the property or activities or proposed activities of the Corporation or of others by whom activities are carried on or are proposed to be carried on with its assistance or in association with it (being information which is in the possession of the Corporation or can be obtained by it with reasonable facility or being returns giving such information) as the Minister may from time to time require, and shall afford to him facilities for the verification of information furnished by it in such manner and at such times as he may require. (4) The Corporation shall so far as is reasonably practicable comply with any request from the Secretary of State to provide him with information or assistance for a purpose related to— (a) the exercise of any function of the Secretary of State or the Treasury under this Act or the Commonwealth Development Corporation Act 1999, or (b) the listing, sale or issue of securities after registration by the Corporation or a company associated with it. (5) Expressions used in subsection (4) and in the 1999 Act have the same meaning in that subsection as in that Act.