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United Kingdom or to the relations of the Government of the United King-
dom with the government of any other country; if the requirement is made
otherwise than for the purpose of civil or criminal proceedings which have
been instituted in the overseas country;
or if it is made wholly or mainly for the
purpose of obtaining discovery of documents in any such
proceedings. A requirement to publish any document or information is
"inadmissible" only if it infringes the jurisdiction of the UK or is
otherwise prejudicial to the sovereignty of the UK or if compliance with
the requirement would be prejudicial to security or foreign relations,
because the other tests that apply to producing documents or furnishing
information are inapplicable for publication. The satisfaction of any
one of these tests is in certain cases sufficient to enable the Secretary
of State to make a direction.
The circumstances in which a requirement would be "inadmissible"
are broadly comparable to the circumstances in which a United Kingdom
court could not compel a person to provide evidence pursuant to a request
made by an overseas court for evidence under the Evidence (Proceedings
in Other Jurisdictions) Act 1975 which implements the Hague Convention
of 1970 on the Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil and Commercial Matters,
and the aim of the clause is to ensure that as far as possible the courts
and the Secretary of State operate on a comparable basis when considering
requirements or requests from overseas countries for information from per-
sons in the United Kingdom.
5.
For the purposes of this clause a request or demand is treated in
the same way as a requirement if a requirement to the same effect could
be or could have been imposed. Furthermore, a request or demand for the
supply of a document or information which is addressed to a person in
the United Kingdom as a result of a requirement emanating from an
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