Prohibition against publishing returns

(1) No individual return furnished in accordance with section 5 or any particulars or part of such return shall be published without the previous consent of the person, corporation or firm making such return. (2) Except for the purpose of prosecution under this Act, no person other than a person responsible for or engaged in the collection or preparation of statistics, shall be permitted to see any such return or any part thereof. (3) No person engaged in connection with the collection and preparation of statistics under this Act shall disclose or, except for the purposes of this Act, make use of the contents of any such return or any part of such return. (4) In any report, summary of statistics or other publication prepared in accordance with this Part with reference to any trade or industry, the particulars comprised in any individual return shall not be disclosed in any manner whatever, or arranged in such manner as will enable any person to identify any particulars as being particulars relating to any individual person or (5) Any person who– (a) having possession of any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in contravention of this section publishes or communicates to any other person any such information; or (b) wilfully contravenes sub-section (3), commits an offence.