4. No information furnished or document produced (including any copy of or extract made of any document produced) by any person in pursuance of a request made under this Schedule and no document seized under paragraph 2(2) of this Schedule shall be disclosed except-
(a) with the consent of the person by whom the information was furnished or the document
was produced or the person from whom the document was seized: Provided that a person who has obtained information or is in possession of a document only in his capacity as servant or agent of another person may not give consent for the purposes of this sub-paragraph but such consent may instead be given by any person who is entitled to that information or the possession of that document in his own right; or (b) to any person who would have been empowered under this Schedule to request that it be furnished or produced or to any person holding or acting in any office under or in the service of the Crown in respect of the Government of the United Kingdom or under or in the service of the Government of any Territory to which this Order extends; or (c) on the authority of the Secretary of State, to any organ of the United Nations or to any person in the service of the United Nations or to the Government of any other country for the purpose of assisting the United Nations or that Government in securing compliance with or detecting evasion of measures in relation to Serbia and Montenegro decided upon by the Security Council of the United Nations; or
(d) with a view to the institution of, or otherwise for the purposes of, any proceedings for an offence under this Order or, with respect to any of the matters regulated by this Order, for an offence under any enactment relating to customs.
5. 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 to any person exercising his
powers under this Schedule; or
(c) otherwise wilfully obstructs any person in this exercise of his powers under this Schedule;
or
(d) with intent to evade the provisions of this Schedule, destroys, mutilates, defaces, secretes
or removes any document,
shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.
SCHEDULE 3
DATE AND NOTIFICATION OF HEARINGS
Article 10(3)
1.-(1) The Governor shall give no less than 28 days' notice to any person who has requested a hearing of the date, time and place fixed for the hearing unless such a person agrees to a lesser period of notice being given.
(2) The Governor may vary the date, time and place fixed for the hearing and shall give such notice of any such variations as appears to him to be reasonable.
Documents and Other Evidence
2.-(1) A person intending to appear at a hearing shall send a copy of any documents to which he proposes to refer at the hearing and any proof of evidence which he proposes to read or have read by a witness at the hearing to the Governor not later than 14 days before the date fixed for the hearing.
(2) The Governor shall send a copy of any document or proof of evidence received from a person intending to appear at a hearing to such other persons intending to appear at a hearing as in his view have an interest in the contents thereof.
3.—(1) A hearing shall be conducted by the Governor who shall, subject as provided in this article, determine the procedure at the hearing.
(2) A hearing shall be conducted in private.
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