Cap. 644 Art. 32Confidentiality. Cap. 496.

Without prejudice to the provisions of the Freedom of

Information Act, the members of the Board of the Agency, the Executive Head and the Agency’s officers, employees and agents, whether still in service of the Agency or otherwise, shall treat any information and documents acquired in the performance of their duties or the exercise of their functions under this Act as confidential, and shall not disclose any information or document relating to the affairs of any licence holder or occasional broker, which they have acquired in the performance of their duties or the exercise of their functions under this Act except:

(a) for the purpose of the performance of their duties or the exercise of their functions under this Act;

(b) before any competent court or tribunal in any proceedings to which the Agency is a party thereto or in any criminal proceedings unless such document is a privileged or confidential document which is exempt from disclosure before a court of law under the provisions of any other law;

(c) to a public agency explicitly authorised to demand such information under any law;

(d) for the purpose of the enforcement of any penalty imposed by the Agency under this Act; and

(e) in the form of an aggregation of data or other statistical information, which in the opinion of the Agency does not lead to the identification of any specific person.