61B.— (1) The Official Assignee may make such enquiries of, and request such information from, a person as the Official Assignee considers to be necessary and proportionate for the performance by him or her of his or her functions under section 61.

(2) A person of whom an enquiry or a request under subsection (1) is made shall provide the information the subject of the enquiry or request to the Official Assignee within such time as may be specified by the Official Assignee.

(3) In this section and section 61A—

"Act of 2018" means the Data Protection Act 2018 ;

"Article 10 data" means personal data referred to in Article 10 of the General Data Protection Regulation;

"General Data Protection Regulation" means Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016² on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC;

"information" includes personal data, special categories of personal data and Article 10 data;

"personal data" has the same meaning as it has in the General Data Protection Regulation;

"special categories of personal data" has the same meaning as it has in the Act of 2018.]