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| (1) The Commission may by notice require any person to furnish any such information or to produce any such document as the 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 the terms of such notice, notwithstanding the provisions of any written law which prohibit such person from disclosing such information or from producing such document; |
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| (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 (i), 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 such written law. |
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| (3) No information contained in a return furnished under section 14, and no 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 be, or in the course of the discharge of the functions of the Commission. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts