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Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing (Financial Institutions)
Ordinance

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(e) examine or cause to be examined on oath or otherwise a person attending before it and require the person to answer truthfully any question that the Tribunal considers appropriate for the purpose of the review;

(f) order a witness to provide evidence for the purpose of the review by affidavit;

(g) order a person not to publish or otherwise disclose any material the Tribunal receives;

(h) prohibit the publication or disclosure of any material the Tribunal receives at any sitting, or any part of a sitting, that is held in private;

(i) stay any of the proceedings in the review on any grounds and on any terms and conditions that it considers appropriate having regard to the interests of justice; and

(j) determine the procedure to be followed in the review.

(2) A person commits an offence if the person, without reasonable excuse—

(a) fails to comply with an order, notice, prohibition or requirement of the Tribunal made, given or imposed under subsection (1);

(b) disrupts any sitting of the Tribunal or otherwise misbehaves during any sitting of the Tribunal;

(c) having been required by the Tribunal under subsection (1) to attend before the Tribunal, leaves the place where the person’s attendance is so required without the permission of the Tribunal;

(d) hinders or deters any person from attending before the Tribunal, giving evidence or producing any article, record or document, for the purpose of a review;