S.L. 379.8 Art. 15Professional secrecy.

(1) Information acquired as a result of the application of regulations 10, 11 and 16 shall be used only for the purposes of the relevant request, investigation or hearing.

(2) Without prejudice to regulations 5(3), 16 and 17, the Director General and public officers employed with or attached to the Office and consultants contracted therewith shall not disclose information they have acquired through the application of these regulations of the kind covered by the obligation of professional secrecy.

(3) Subregulations (1) and (2) shall not prevent publication of general information or of surveys which do not contain information relating to particular undertakings or associations of undertakings.