STATISTICS OF TRADE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949 - SECT 7 Disclosure of information.

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STATISTICS OF TRADE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949 - SECT 7

Disclosure of information.

7.(1) No individual estimate or return, and no information relating to an
individual undertaking, obtained under the foregoing provisions of this Act
shall, without the previous consent in writing of the person carrying on the
undertaking which is the subject of the estimate, return or information, be
disclosed except, subject to the provisions of section five of this Act,

(a)in accordance with directions given by the Minister [or, where the
estimate, return or information is in the possession of a competent authority,
by the Minister in charge of that authority,] to another Government department
for the purpose of the exercise by that department of its functions;

(b)without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of the preceding
paragraph, in accordance with such directions as aforesaid, to the Board of
Trade for the purpose of the preparation of a census relating to the United
Kingdom as a whole;

Para.(c) rep. by 1958 c.6 s.16 sch.7

(d)for the purposes of any proceedings for an offence under this Act, or any
report of those proceedings.

(2) Every person employed by the Ministry in connection with the taking of a
census under this Act or [by the Ministry or a competent authority in
connection] with estimates or returns furnished under this Act, shall be
required to make a declaration in the prescribed form that he will not,
otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Act or of any order
made thereunder, make use of, disclose to any person not similarly employed,
or permit any person not similarly employed to see, the contents of any
individual estimate or return or any part thereof.

(3) If any information to be obtained for the purposes of a census under
this Act is also obtainable under any other enactment which restricts the
disclosure of information obtained thereunder, and the Ministry is of opinion
that similar restrictions should be applied to any information to be obtained
for the purposes of the census, the Ministry shall by order provide for the
application without modifications or with such adaptations or modifications as
it thinks fit, of those restrictions to the information to be so obtained, or
any part thereof, in addition to the restrictions imposed by this section.

(4) Without prejudice to the provisions of the last preceding sub-section, if
it appears to the Ministry that

(a)the nature of the information to be obtained for the purposes of a census
under this Act; or

(b)the nature of the undertakings to be covered by the census;

(5) The following provisions shall have effect with respect to any report,
summary or other communication to the public of information obtained under the
foregoing provisions of this Act:

(a)no such report, summary or communication shall disclose the number of
returns received with respect to the production of any article if that number
is less than five;

(b)in compiling any such report, summary or communication the Ministry [or a
competent authority] shall so arrange it as to prevent any particulars
published therein from being identified as being particulars relating to any
individual person or undertaking except with the previous consent in writing
of that person or the person carrying on that undertaking, as the case may be;
but this provision shall not prevent the disclosure of the total quantity or
value of any articles produced, sold or delivered, so, however, that before
disclosing any such total the Ministry [or a competent authority] shall have
regard to any representations made to it by any person who alleges that the
disclosure thereof would enable particulars relating to him or to an
undertaking carried on by him to be deduced from the total disclosed.

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STATISTICS OF TRADE ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1949 - SECT 7