Obtaining of information
8.—(1) Without prejudice to any other provision of this Order, or any provision of any other law, the Treasury may direct any person to furnish to them any information in his possession or control, or to produce to them any document in his possession or control, which they may require for the purpose of securing compliance with or detecting evasion of this Order or any law making provision with respect to any of the matters regulated by this Order that is in force in any of the Channel Islands, Isle of Man or any territory listed in the Schedule to this Order; and any person to whom such a direction is made shall comply with it within such time and in such manner as may be specified in the direction.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall be taken to require any person who has acted as counsel or solicitor for any person to furnish or produce any privileged information or document in his possession in that capacity.
(3) Where a person is convicted of failing to furnish information or produce a document when requested to do so under this article the court may make an order requiring him, within such period as may be specified in the order, to furnish the information or produce the document.
(4) The power conferred by this article to direct any person to produce documents shall include power to take copies of or extracts from any document so produced and to direct that person, or, where that person is a body corporate, any other person who is a present or past officer of, or is employed by, the body corporate, to provide an explanation of any of them.
(5) The furnishing of any information or the production of any document under this article shall not be treated as a breach of any restriction imposed by statute or otherwise.
(6) Any person who—
(a)without reasonable excuse, refuses or fails within the time and in the manner specified (or, if no time has been specified, within a reasonable time) to comply with any direction made under this article by any person who is empowered to make it; or
(b)furnishes any information or produces any document which to his knowledge is false in a material particular or recklessly furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular to such a person in response to such a direction; or
(c)otherwise wilfully obstructs any person in the exercise of his powers under this article; or
(d)with intent to evade the provisions of this article, destroys, mutilates, defaces, secretes or removes any document,
shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.