(c) omit subsection (4);
(d) after subsection (5) insert—
“ (5A) An information notice under section 101(C1) must—
(a) specify or describe the information to be retained,
(b) specify why OFCOM require the information to be retained,
(c) require the information to be retained for the period of one year beginning with the date of the notice,
(d) require the person to whom the notice is given—
(i) if the child to whom the notice relates used the service in question, to notify OFCOM by a specified date of steps taken to ensure the retention of information;
(ii) if the child did not use the service, or the person does not hold any information of the kind required, to notify OFCOM of that fact by a specified date, and
(e) contain information about the consequences of not complying with the notice.
(5B) If OFCOM give an information notice to a person under section 101(C1), they may, in response to information received from the investigating authority, extend the period for which the person is required to retain information by a maximum period of six months.
(5C) The power conferred by subsection (5B) is exercisable—
(a) by giving the person a notice varying the notice under section 101(C1) and stating the further period for which information must be retained and the reason for the extension;
(b) any number of times. ” ;
(e) after subsection (9) insert—
“ (9A) OFCOM must cancel an information notice under section 101(C1) by notice to the person to whom it was given if advised by the investigating authority that the information in question no longer needs to be retained. ” ;
(f) in subsection (10), after the definition of “information” insert—
“ “ the investigating authority ” has the same meaning as in section 101; ” .
(5) In section 109 (offences in connection with information notices)—
(a) in subsection (2)(b), for “all reasonable steps” substitute “all of the steps that it was reasonable, and reasonably practicable, to take” ;
(b) after subsection (6) insert—
“ (6A) A person who is given an information notice under section 101(C1) commits an offence if—
(a) the person deletes or alters, or causes or permits the deletion or alteration of, any information required by the notice to be retained, and
(b) the person’s intention was to prevent the information being available, or (as the case may be) to prevent it being available in unaltered form, for the purposes of any official investigation into the death of the child to whom the notice relates.
(6B) For the purposes of subsection (6A) information has been deleted if it is irrecoverable (however that occurred). ”
(6) In section 110 (senior managers’ liability: information offences)—