(1) If:
(a) an offshore information notice (in this subsection called the first notice ) was given to a person; and
(b) during the period set out in the first notice (including a period set out by virtue of one or more previous applications of this subsection), another offshore information notice (in this subsection called the subsequent notice ) is given to the person; and
(c) the subsequent notice is expressed to be by way of variation of the first notice;
the following provisions have effect:
(d) the request, or each of the requests, set out in the subsequent notice is taken, for the purposes of section 81G, to have been set out in the first notice;
(e) if the period set out in the first notice would, apart from this subsection, end before the end of the period set out in the subsequent notice--the period set out in the first notice is taken to have been extended under subsection 81B(1) to the end of the period set out in the subsequent notice.
(2) The Official Receiver, by written notice given to the person to whom the offshore information notice was given, may vary the offshore information notice by:
(a) reducing its scope; or
(b) correcting a clerical error or obvious mistake;
and, if the Official Receiver does so, a reference in this Division to the offshore information notice is taken to be a reference to that notice as so varied.