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Power to obtain information.

PREVENTION OF BRIBERY BILL

(b) Such a requirement as aforesaid may be made orally or in writing and where such a requirement is made in writing any statement therein as to the existence of the appropriate authorization under subsection (1) shall be accepted as true without further proof of the fact.

(3) Any person who, having been lawfully required under this section to disclose any information or to produce any accounts, books, safe-deposit box or other article to a police officer or a public servant authorized under subsection (1), fails or neglects, without reasonable excuse, so to do, and any person who obstructs any such police officer or public servant in the execution of the authorization given under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one year.

14. (1) In the course of any investigation into, or proceedings relating to, an offence by any person under this Ordinance, the Attorney General may by written notice require—

(a) such person to furnish to the Director a statutory declara- tion or, as the Attorney General sees fit, a statement in writing, enumerating—

(i) the property, being property in such categories or classes of property, movable or immovable, as may be specified in such notice, belonging to or possessed by, or which at any time during the year immediately preced- ing the date of such notice or during such shorter period as may be specified in such notice belonged to or was possessed by, such person, his agents or trustees, his spouse, parents or children, specifying in respect of each property enumerated whether it is or was possessed jointly (and, if so, with whom) or severally, and specifying the date upon which each such property was acquired and whether by purchase, gift, bequest, inheritance or other- wise, and in respect of any property enumerated which has been disposed of, whether by sale, gift or otherwise, at any time during the year immediately preceding the date of the notice or such shorter period as aforesaid, specifying how and to whom the same was disposed of;

(ii) all expenditure incurred by such person in respect of himself, his spouse, parents or children with regard to living expenses and other private expenditure during any period specified in such notice (not, however, being a period commencing earlier than one year from the date of the notice);