Section 160Part 6 — Forfeiture of Cash and Property
Disclosure orders
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A judge may, on an application made to that judge by the Director of Public Prosecutions, make a disclosure order if that judge is satisfied that each of the requirements set out in section 161 for the making of the order is fulfilled.
A disclosure order is an order authorising the Director of Public Prosecutions to give to any person the Director of Pu blic Prosecutions considers has relevant information notice in writing requiring that person to do, with respect to any matter relevant to the investigation for the purposes of which the order is sought, any or all of the following —
answer questions, either at a time specified in the notice or at once, at a place so specified;
provide information specified in the notice, by a time and in a manner so specified; or
produce documents, or documents of a description, specified in the notice, either at or by a time so specified or at once, and in a manner so specified.
An application for a disclosure order shall not be made in relation to a money laundering investigation.
The application for a disclosure order shall state that —
a persons pecified in the application is subject to a confiscation investigation and the order is sought for the purposes of the investigation; or
property specified in the application is subject to a civil recovery investigation and the order is sought for the purposes of the investigation.
“ Relevant information ” is information (whether or not contained in a document) which the Director of Public Prosecutions considers to be relevant to the investigation.
A person is not bound to comply with a requirement imposed by a notice given under a disclosure order unless evidence of authority to give the notice is produced to that person .
Where a judge makes a disclosure order under this section, the order need not be served on the person who is under investigation.