Section 25

No particulars, information 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 given or furnished; and, except for the purposes of a prosecution, no person who is not engaged in connection with the control of imports and exports under this Act shall be permitted to see any such particulars, information or document.

Any person engaged in connection with the control of imports or exports who makes use of, publishes or permits any other person to see or discloses or communicates to any other person the contents of any such particulars, information, answer or document to any other person otherwise than with such consent or for such purposes as are mentioned in 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 one year or to both.

Any person having possession of any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed, published or communicated in contravention of this section who publishes or communicates that information to any other person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to the same penalties as are set out in subsection (2).[26