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INDUSTRIAL TRAINING ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 6

Power to obtain information from employers.

6.(1) Where an industrial training board have been established, the Ministry
may require employers in the industry to furnish such returns or other
information and to keep such records and produce them for examination on
the Ministry's behalf as appear to the Ministry to be necessary for the
purposes of this Act.

(2) An industrial training board and any person assessing and collecting a
levy on behalf of the board may require employers in the industry to furnish
such returns or other information of a kind approved by the Ministry and to
keep such records of a kind approved by the Ministry and produce them for
examination on behalf of the board as appear to the board to be necessary for
carrying out their functions.

(3) Subject to subsection (4), returns and other information furnished in
pursuance of the preceding provisions of this section and any information
obtained on an examination made in pursuance thereof shall not, without the
consent of the employer to whose business the returns or information relate,
be disclosed otherwise than to

(a)the Ministry or an officer of the Ministry; or

(b)an industrial training board or a committee appointed by such a board, or
an officer of such a board or committee or any person entitled to take part in
the proceedings of such a board; or

(c)the Northern Ireland Training Executive or a member of or person employed
by the Executive.

(4) Subsection (3) shall not apply

(a)to the disclosure of returns or information in the form of a summary of
similar returns or information furnished by or obtained from a number of
employers, if the summary is so framed as not to enable particulars relating
to any individual business to be ascertained from it;

(b)to any disclosure of information made for the purposes of any legal
proceedings pursuant to this Act or any criminal proceedings, whether pursuant
to this Act or not, or for the purposes of any report of any such proceedings.

(5) A certificate purporting to be issued by the Ministry and stating that
the Ministry has approved any kind of information, return or record for the
purposes of subsection (2) shall in any legal proceedings be evidence of the
facts stated in the certificate.

(6) If any person fails to comply with any requirement made under subsection
(1) or subsection (2) he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding one hundred pounds, or on a second or subsequent conviction two
hundred pounds.

(7) If any person

(a)knowingly or recklessly furnishes, in pursuance of any requirement made
under subsection (1) or subsection (2), any return or other information which
is false in a material particular; or

(b)wilfully makes a false entry in any record required to be produced under
either of those subsections or, with intent to deceive, makes use of any such
entry which he knows to be false; or

(c)discloses any information in contravention of subsection (3);

Proposals for exercise of board's functions and for levies.



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