Forestry Act 2014
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Prohibition on unauthorised disclosure of confidential information | ||
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9. (1) A person shall not disclose confidential information obtained by him or her while performing, or as a result of having performed, duties as a member of a committee unless he or she is authorised to do so by the Minister or as provided by law. | ||
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and be liable, on summary conviction, to a class E fine. | ||
(3) In this section “confidential information” includes— | ||
(a) information that is expressed by the Minister or the committee, as the case may be, to be confidential either as regards particular information or as regards information of a particular class or description, | ||
(b) a report of the committee to the Minister, and | ||
(c) information given by the committee to the Minister. | ||
(4) The Third Schedule to the Freedom of Information Act 1997 is amended by the insertion in Part 1 at the end thereof: | ||
(a) in column (2) of “ Forestry Act 2014”, and | ||
(b) in column (3) of “ section 9 ”. |