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Paragraph 18 Interim measures

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(1)

Subject to paragraph (2) below, if the Director proposes to give a direction under section 35, he shall give each person to whom he proposes to give the direction a reasonable opportunity to inspect the documents in that Director’s file relating to the proposed direction.

(2)

The Director may withhold any document:

(a)

to the extent that it contains information which a person has stated to that Director to be, and which that Director has found to be, confidential, in the sense given to that word by sub-paragraph (1)(c) of rule 30 below;

(b)

which is, in the opinion of that Director, otherwise confidential; or

(c)

which is internal, in the sense given to that word by sub-paragraph (1)(f) of rule 30 below.

(3)

Where the Director gives a direction to a person under section 35, he shall at the same time inform that person in writing of the facts on which he bases the direction and his reasons for giving it.