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Council may, if the Commission so requests, order that the Commission

resume all or any of such functions.

(7) A transfer order may provide for the designated Exchange

Company to retain all or any fees charged in relation to the

performance of any transferred function, and an order made under

subsection (5) or (6) may provide for the Commission to retain all or

any such fees, from a date to be specified in the order.

Information: Exchange Companies and clearing houses

45. (1) The Commission, each of the Exchange Companies or

any clearing house shall be entitled to supply information about

its affairs to any other of them, and any such supply of

information shall not be treated as a publication for the purposes

of the law of defamation and, subject to section 55, no person so

supplying any such information shall incur any liability as a

consequence thereof.

(2) The Commission may by written notice require any Exchange

Company or clearing house to supply it with such information as it

may reasonably require for the performance of its functions under the

relevant Ordinances, and any such supply of information shall not be

treated as a publication for the purposes of the law of defamation;

and, notwithstanding section 55, no person so supplying any such

in formation shall incur any liability as a consequence thereof.

(3) An Exchange Company shall give to the Commission such

written notice as is reasonable in the circumstances of its intention