s 251ZB Notice requesting compliance by relevant IT providers
(1) If the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds to suspect that a relevant IT provider is not complying with an information standard which applies to the provider, the Secretary of State may give the provider a written notice which— (a) identifies the standard in question, (b) sets out the Secretary of State’s grounds for suspecting that the provider is not complying with the standard, (c) asks the provider to comply with the standard within a period specified in the notice, (d) asks the provider, within a period specified in the notice, to provide evidence to the Secretary of State’s satisfaction that the provider is complying with the standard, and (e) if the Secretary of State considers it appropriate, sets out the steps that the Secretary of State considers the provider must take, within a period specified in the notice, in order to comply with the standard. (2) A period specified for the purposes of subsection (1)(c), (d) or (e) must be a period of at least 28 days beginning with the day on which the notice is given. (3) The Secretary of State may, by giving the relevant IT provider a further written notice, vary or revoke a notice given under subsection (1).