The Burma/Myanmar (Financial Restrictions) Regulations 2009

3.—(1) The Treasury may request any person to give to them any information or to produce to them any document in that person’s possession or control which they may require for the purpose of—

(a) monitoring compliance with or detecting evasion of these Regulations;

(b) obtaining evidence of the commission of an offence under these Regulations;

(c) establishing—

(i) the nature and amount or quantity of any funds or economic resources owned, held or controlled by a designated person; or

(ii) the nature of any financial transactions entered into by a designated person or designated enterprise.

(2) This includes power to—

(a) take copies of or extracts from any document so produced;

(b) request any person producing a document to give an explanation of it; and

(c) where that person is a body corporate, request any person who is a present or past officer, or employee, of the body corporate to give such an explanation.

(3) Any person to whom a request is made must comply with it within such time and in such manner as may be specified in the request.

(4) Nothing in this paragraph shall be taken to require any person who has acted as counsel or solicitor for any person to give or produce any privileged information or document in his or her possession in that capacity.