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1.—(1) Without prejudice to any other provision of this Order, or any provision of any other law, the Treasury may request any person in or resident in the United Kingdom 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—
(a)securing compliance with or detecting evasion of this Order; or
(b)obtaining evidence of the commission of an offence under this Order in the United Kingdom.
(2) Any person to whom a request is made must comply with it within such time and in such manner as may be specified in the request.
(3) The power conferred by this paragraph to request any person to produce documents includes power to—
(a)take copies of or extracts from any document so produced; and
(b)request 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.
(4) Where a person is convicted under paragraph 3(a) of this Schedule of failing to furnish information or produce a document when requested so to do, 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.
(5) The furnishing of any information or the production of any document under this paragraph is not to be treated as a breach of any restriction imposed by statute or otherwise.
(6) Nothing in this paragraph 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.