Regulations for providing information as to air transport undertakings

(1) The Minister may make regulations requiring any person– (a) who carries on the business of carrying passengers or goods in aircraft for hire or reward; or (b) who is the owner or the pilot or other person who is in charge of any aircraft engaged in such business, to furnish to the prescribed authorities in such form and at such times as may be specified in the regulations, information of such description as may be so specified relating to the operation, business management and financial accounts in respect of such aircraft and to the persons employed in connection with such (2) Regulations under this section may provide for the imposition of penalties for offences against the regulations, not exceeding a fine of two hundred dollars and a further fine of twenty-five dollars for every day on which the offence continues after conviction there for, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months. (3) No information with respect to any undertaking which has been obtained by virtue of the regulations under this section Civil Aviation Act 17 shall be disclosed to any other person without the written consent of the person carrying on that undertaking; and if any person discloses any such information in contravention of this sub-section he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to both such fine and term of imprisonment, provided that nothing in this sub-section shall apply to the disclosure of any information for the purposes of any legal proceedings which may be taken by virtue of this sub-section or regulations under this section, or for the purposes of any report of such proceedings; but save as aforesaid, the restriction imposed by this sub-section shall, in relation to any legal proceedings or arbitrations, extend so as to prohibit and prevent any person who is in possession of any such information so obtained from disclosing, and from being required by any court or arbitrator to disclose, that information (whether as a witness or otherwise) except with the written consent of the person carrying on the undertaking.