Singapore legislation

Clause 14

of Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Bill

Clause 14

Preservation of secrecy

(1)

Except for the purpose of the performance of his duties or the exercise of his functions or when lawfully required to do so by any court or under the provisions of any written law, no person who is or has been —

(a)

a member, an officer, an employee, an adviser or an agent of the Authority;

(b)

a member of a committee of the Authority or an Appeals Advisory Panel; or

(c)

an authorised officer or a responsible person for information obtained by an authorised person in the performance of the duties or exercise of the functions of the authorised person under this Act,shall disclose any information relating to the affairs of the Authority or of any other person which has been obtained by him in the performance of his duties or the exercise of his functions under this Act.

(2)

Any 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 6 months or to both.

(3)

For the purposes of this section, the responsible person for information obtained by the authorised person in the performance of the duties or exercise of the functions of the authorised person under this Act is —

(a)

the employee of the authorised person to whom the information was disclosed or who has access thereto; and

(b)

if the information is stored —

(i)

on a database — the employee of the authorised person who has day-to-day control of the database; or

(ii)

otherwise — the employee of the authorised person who has day-to-day responsibility for the system under which the information is stored.

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