SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3U.K.Freezing orders

Information and documentsU.K.

5(1)A freezing order may include provision that a person—U.K.

(a)must provide information if required to do so and it is reasonably needed for the purpose of ascertaining whether an offence under the order has been committed;

(b)must produce a document if required to do so and it is reasonably needed for that purpose.

(2)In particular, an order may include—

(a)provision that a requirement to provide information or to produce a document may be made by the Treasury or a person authorised by the Treasury;

(b)provision that information must be provided, and a document must be produced, within a reasonable period specified in the order and at a place specified by the person requiring it;

(c)provision that the provision of information is not to be taken to breach any restriction on the disclosure of information (however imposed);

(d)provision restricting the use to which information or a document may be put and the circumstances in which it may be disclosed;

(e)provision that a requirement to provide information or produce a document does not apply to privileged information or a privileged document;

(f)provision that information is privileged if the person would be entitled to refuse to provide it on grounds of legal professional privilege in proceedings in the High Court or (in Scotland) on grounds of confidentiality of communications in proceedings in the Court of Session;

(g)provision that a document is privileged if the person would be entitled to refuse to produce it on grounds of legal professional privilege in proceedings in the High Court or (in Scotland) on grounds of confidentiality of communications in proceedings in the Court of Session;

(h)provision that information or a document held with the intention of furthering a criminal purpose is not privileged.