Reports of the Board and publication

(1) A Board of Inquiry may, if it thinks fit, make interim (2) Any report of the Board, and any minority report, shall be submitted to the Minister. (3) The Minister may cause to be published from time to time, in such manner as he thinks fit, any information obtained or conclusion arrived at by the Board as the result or in the course of inquiry, but, (a) there shall not be included in any report or publication made or authorised by the Board or the Minister any information obtained by the Board in the course of the inquiry as to any trade union or as to any individual business (whether carried on by a person, firm or company) which is not available otherwise than through evidence given at the inquiry, except with the consent of the secretary of the trade union or of the person, firm or company in question; (b) no individual member of the Board or any person concerned in the inquiry shall, without such consent, disclose any such information.