Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017

72.

Power of court to grant injunctions in certain cases

72. (1) The High Court may, on an application made by the Ombudsman, grant an injunction restraining the conduct of a financial service provider or a pension provider which is engaging, or in which a financial service provider or a pension provider appears likely to engage, where the conduct is conduct that is being investigated or is proposed to be investigated or in relation to which a complaint has been received by the Ombudsman.

(2) In the case of a financial service provider, the High Court may not grant an application under subsection (1) unless of the opinion that the conduct sought to be restrained is likely to prejudice or negate the effect or implementation of a decision that the Ombudsman may make if the Ombudsman were to find the complaint to which the conduct relates is upheld, substantially upheld or partially upheld.

(3) The High Court may not require the Ombudsman to give any undertaking as to damages as a condition for the granting of an injunction in consequence of an application referred to in subsection (1).