Section 9
Section 9
(1)
No return of particulars or information and no part of a return furnished and no answer to any question put for the purposes of this Act shall without the previous con-sent in writing of the person having the control, manage-ment or superintendence of the profession, business, trade or work in relation to which the return or answer was fur-nished or given, be published nor, except for the purposes of collecting and preparing statistics or for the purposes of a prosecution under this Act or for such other purposes as may be prescribed shall any person be permitted to see any individual return or any such part of an individual return.
(2)
Every person engaged in connection with the col-lection, preparation or publication of statistics or in connec-tion with any other purpose prescribed under subsection (1)
shall be required to make a declaration in the prescribed form that he will not disclose or, except for such purposes make use of the contents of any such part of an individual return or any such answer as aforesaid; and any person who knowingly acts in contravention of any declaration which he has so made shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprison-ment for one year and a fine of $5,000.
(3)
In any report, summary of statistics, or other publication prepared under this Act with reference to any trade or industry, the particulars comprised in any return shall not, without the previous consent in writing of the person having control, management or superintendence of the profession, business, trade or work to which particulars 7
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(4)
If any person, having possession of any informa-tion which to his knowledge has been disclosed in con-travention of the provision of this section, publishes or com-municates to any other person any such information, he shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment for one year and a fine of $5,000.