4.—(1) 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)furnishes any information or produces any document which to their knowledge is false in a material particular or recklessly furnishes any document or information which is false in a material particular to such a person in response to such a request; or
(c)otherwise wilfully obstructs any person in the exercise of their powers under this Schedule; or
(d)with intent to evade the provision of this Schedule, destroys, mutilates, defaces, secretes or removes any document;
shall be guilty of an offence under this Order.
(2) Nothing in this paragraph shall be taken to require any person who has acted as a counsel or solicitor for any person to give or produce any privileged information or document in his possession in that capacity.