General offences

(1) Any person who, (a) wilfully hinders or deters any person from attending, giving evidence or producing any article or document; or (b) threatens, insults or causes any loss to be suffered by any person who has attended before the Commission, on account of such attendance; or (c) threatens, insults or causes a loss to be suffered by any Commissioner at any time on 9 account of the performance of his duties as a Commissioner; or (d) publishes or otherwise discloses any material which the Commission had prohibited him from publishing or disclosing; or (e) publishes or otherwise discloses any material received by the Commission in camera, is guilty of an offence and is liable on conviction on indictment to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year. (2) It shall be a good defence in the case of a prosecution under subsection (1)(e) of this section for the person charged to prove to the satisfaction of the court that he did not know nor had any reason of knowing that the material published or disclosed had been received by the Commission in camera.