AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 23 Restrictions on disclosing information or returns.

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AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 23

Restrictions on disclosing information or returns.

23.(1) Subject to subsection (2), any person who discloses any information
obtained by him in the exercise of any power conferred on him or on the
Ministry or on any board by or under this Act shall be liable on conviction to
a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall apply to the disclosure of any
information:

(a)made by a board in compliance with a requisition under section 40(1) of the
Diseases of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1958;

(b)made for the purposes of a prosecution or other legal proceedings
(including arbitrations) under this Act or under a scheme or regulation made
under this Act or for the purpose of any report of such proceedings;

(c)if, and in so far as, the disclosure is required or authorised by this Act
or any scheme or regulation made thereunder.

(3) No individual return or part of a return made to the Ministry in
accordance with an order of the Ministry under this Act shall be disclosed
without the authority of the person by whom the return was made, except in so
far as the disclosure is authorised by subsection (2).

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AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACTS (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1964 - SECT 23