Section 6

Subject to subsection (3), no particulars, explanation or document furnished, and no answer to any question put, for the purposes of this Act shall be published without the previous consent in writing of the person having the control, management or superintendence of the goods in relation to which the same was furnished or given; and, except for the purposes of a prosecution under this Act or under the Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act [Cap. 53], no person who is not engaged in connection with the registration of imports and exports under this Act shall be permitted to see any such particulars, explanation or document.

Notwithstanding subsection (1), it shall be lawful for the Board to supply statements of daily imports and exports to the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce, which may lawfully publish those statements.

If any importer or exporter objects in writing to the disclosure of his name and of particulars of his imports or exports, those particulars shall be included under a general heading entitled Traders or similar appellation, and communicated to the Singapore International Chamber of Commerce in such a manner that individual information is not disclosed.

Every individual engaged in connection with the registration of imports and exports under this Act shall be required to make a declaration that he will not disclose or, except for the purposes of this Act or of the Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act, make use of the contents of any such particulars, explanation or document, or any such answer as aforesaid; and any person who knowingly acts in contravention of any declaration which he has so made shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction before a District Court to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.

If any person, having possession of any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in contravention of this section, publishes or communicates to any other person any such information, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction before a District Court to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.[7