Section 5
Section 5
(1)
Neither the Competent Officer nor any officer or persons connected thereto and who is engaged in or con-nected with the collection, interpretation or publication of statistics under this Act shall except as required by his duty disclose any information which has come into his possession in the course of his said duty as such.
Minister may give direc-tions
Appointment of Competent
Officer
Information collected not to be dis-closed to un-authorised persons
B.L.R.O. ll1984
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Statistics
(2)
Any officer who contravenes the provision of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, impris-onment for 2 years and a fine of $20,000.
(3)
The Competent Officer shall draw the attention of every officer engaged in or connected with the collection, interpretation or publication of statistics to the provisions of subsection (1) and (2) before such officer commences to perform his duties under this Act.
( 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 to a fine of $15,000.
Safeguards as 6.
(1)
Except with the prior consent in writing of the to the com-b h f
( h h munication of person y w om, or 0 any person w et er as agent or information principal) carrying on an undertaking in relation to which
Notice to re-quire particu-lars statistics have been collected, no statistic collected by the
Competent Officer shall be used for the purpose of deter-mining any liability of any such person or undertaking to any description of taxation or levy or otherwise to be com-municated to any Government department or other author-ity or person, being a department, authority or person likely to use it for the purpose.
(2)
In communicating statistics collected by it or the interpretation thereof the Competent Officer shall take steps to ensure that the identity or any person or undertak-ing to whom or to which it relates is not thereby disclosed.