Without prejudice to any other provision of this Order, or any provision of any other law, the Secretary of State or the Commissioners may request any person in or resident in the United Kingdom to furnish to him or her, or to them any information in his or her possession or control, or to produce to him or her, or to them any document in his or her possession or control, which he or she, or they may require for the purpose of securing compliance with or detecting evasion of this Order; and any person to whom such a request is made shall comply with it within such time and in such manner as may be specified in the request.

Nothing in sub-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 or her possession in that capacity.

Where a person is convicted of failing to furnish information or produce a document when requested so to do under this paragraph, the court may make an order requiring him or her, within such period as may be specified in the order, to furnish the information or produce the document.

The power conferred by this paragraph to request any person to produce documents shall include power to take copies of or extracts from any document so produced and to 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.

The furnishing of any information or the production of any document under this paragraph shall not be treated as a breach of any restriction imposed by statute or otherwise.