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Paragraph 5

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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 request made under this Schedule by any person who is empowered to make it; or

(b)

wilfully furnishes false information or a false explanation or otherwise wilfully obstructs any person in the exercise of his powers under this Schedule; or

(c)

with intent to evade the provisions of this Schedule, destroys, mutilates, defaces, secretes, or removes any document, shall be guilty of an offence against this Order.