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Fair Trading Commission Act (No. 1 of 1987) - Sect 8

Power of Commission to call for information

8.
(1) The Commission or any person authorized in that behalf by the Commission may, by notice in writing require any person to furnish within such period as shall be specified in the notice, any such information or to produce any such document as shall be specified in such notice, as he Commission may consider necessary for the proper exercise of its powers or the discharge of its functions, and it shall be the duty of any person who receives such notice to comply with such requirement within the time specified in such notice, notwithstanding the provisions of any written law which prohibit such person from disclosing such information or from producing such document:
(2) Where a person is prohibited by the provisions of any written law from disclosing any information or from producing any document which he may be required to disclose or to produce under the provisions of subsection (1), such disclosure or production by him shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any such written law not be deemed to be a contravention of the provisions of such written law.
(3) No information contained in a return furnished under section 7, and to information furnished or the contents of a document produced, in compliance with the terms of a notice issued under this section shall be published or communicated by the Commission to any other person except with the consent of the person furnishing such return or information, or producing such document, as the case may he or in the course of the discharge of the functions of the Commission.


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