14.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, if the Director proposes to give a direction under regulation 21, he shall give each person to whom he proposes to give the direction a reasonable opportunity to inspect the documents in the 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 the Director to be, and which the Director has found to be, confidential, in the sense given to that word by sub-paragraph (1)(c) of rule 21 below;
(b)which is, in the opinion of the Director, otherwise confidential; or
(c)which is internal, in the sense given to that word by sub-paragraph (1)(e) of rule 21 below.
(3) Where the Director gives a direction to a person under regulation 21, 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.