s 41 Preservation of secrecy
41.—(1) A member, an employee, an officer, a delegate or subdelegate of the Agency, an authorised person, an inspector, the Chief Executive or a committee member, who has information in his or her capacity as such that would not otherwise be available to him or her, must not disclose that information to any person except —(a) in the performance of the Agency’s functions; (b) with the prior authorisation from the Agency to do so; (c) for the purposes of any proceedings for an offence under this section or section 58, or any report of those proceedings; (d) as required by an order of court; (e) in complying with the requirements in this Act for members to disclose interests; or (f) as required of or allowed by the Agency, the Chief Executive, the member, employee, officer, delegate or subdelegate of the Agency, the authorised person, the inspector or the committee member, by or under this Act or any other Act.[Act 3 of 2023 wef 15/06/2023] [Act 3 of 2023 wef 15/06/2023] (2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both. (3) In this section —“authorised person” means an authorised person appointed under section 56B(1) or section 14A(1) of the Skills Development Levy Act 1979; “inspector” means an inspector appointed under section 56B(2), section 14A(2) of the Skills Development Levy Act 1979 or section 29(1) of the Private Education Act 2009.[Act 3 of 2023 wef 15/06/2023]