Section 22: Confidentiality
consolidated text (as at 2017, amended since). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
22. Confidentiality
(1) Before performing any function under this Act—
(a) every employee of a public sector agency shall, where he is engaged in the joint collection of information or the processing of
information collected in the joint collection;
(b) every person involved in the research or statistical project for
which information is disclosed pursuant to section 19; and
(c) —
(d) every authorised officer,
shall make a declaration of confidentiality in the form set out in the Second
Schedule or, where the person is abroad, in such form and manner as the
Director may approve.
(2) Before performing any function under this Act or any regulations
made under the Act, every member, every co-opted person under section
23 (3) (b), every member of a committee set up under section 24 (2) and the
Director shall take an oath of confidentiality in the form set out in the Third
Schedule.
(3) Subject to subsection (4), every person referred to in subsections (1)
and (2) who has access to the records of Statistics Mauritius shall maintain,
during and after his period of service in Statistics Mauritius, the confidentiality of any matter relating to this Act and to any regulations made under this
Act which comes to his knowledge.
(4) No person referred to in subsections (1) and (2) shall communicate to
any other person any matter relating to this Act and to any regulations made
under this Act which comes to his knowledge in the performance of his
functions except—
(a) for the purposes of administering this Act; or
(b) where he otherwise complies with the provisions of this Act.
(5) Any person who contravenes this section shall commit an offence
and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 50,000 rupees and
to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.
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(6) In this section—
“abroad” includes Rodrigues, Agalega and any other island comprised
in the State of Mauritius.
[S. 22 repealed and replaced by s. 28 (o) of Act 20 of 2011 w.e.f. 31 August 2011; amended
by s. 51 of Act 10 of 2017 w.e.f. 24 July 2017.]