Offences

A person who– (a) wilfully or negligently prevents or obstructs the Director-General or any other authorized officer of the Institute from carrying out his duties under the provisions of this Act; 38 (b) misuses information provided under this Act or wilfully or negligently discloses information relating to any identifiable person or undertaking; (c) unreasonably refuses or neglects to furnish any information or to fill in to the best of his knowledge and belief any schedule or form that the person is required to fill in and to return the same as required of him; (d) knowingly give false or misleading or otherwise deceives an authorized officer of the Institute in the execution of his duties; (e) not being an authorized officer of the Institute, represents himself as being an authorized officer of the Institute or makes an inquiry under the authority of this Act when the person is not an authorized officer of the Institute; (f) wilfully destroys, damages or falsifies any document or record issued for the collection of statistics incompliance with a requirement made under section 36 or 37; or (g) having the custody or charge of any documents or records that are maintained in any Government Department or by any local authority, corporation, business or organization, from which information sought in respect of the objects of this Act can be obtained or that would aid in the completion or correction of the information, refuses or neglects to grant access to the information to any employee of the Institute for the purpose by the Director- General, 39 commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both such fine and term of imprisonment.