SCHEDULE 3U.K.EVIDENCE AND INFORMATION

5.  Any person who—U.K.

(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 request made under this Schedule 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 request; or

(c)otherwise wilfully obstructs any person in the exercise of his powers under this Schedule; or

(d)with intent to evade the provisions of this Schedule, destroys, mutilates, defaces, secretes or removes any document,

shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.

Commencement Information

I1Sch. 3 para. 5 in force at 14.6.2003, see art. 1(1)