CHAPTER IX
OFFENCES, PENALTIES AND PROCEDURE
28. Information not to be divulged. Any person who—
(a) being a person employed for the purposes of this Ordinance, publishes or communicates to
any person, otherwise than in the ordinary course of such employment, any information
acquired by him in the course of the employment; or
(b) having possession of any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in
contravention of this Ordinance, publishes or communicates that information to any other
person,
shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine which
may extend to one million rupees, or with both:
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any publication or communication of information
made—
(a) for the purpose of any criminal proceedings; or
(b) to any gazetted officer authorised by the Authority.
29. Security, secrecy, etc. of data not to be breached. —(1) No person shall use, or deal with,
or do any other thing or act of omission or commission in relation to—
(a) the registration or database systems developed, established or maintained, or so caused to
be developed, established or maintained, under this Ordinance including any database,
data warehouse or networking infrastructure; or
(b) the data or information contained, or housed, or transmitted therein,
in contravention of the regulations made under clause (d) of sub section (4) of section (5).
(2) Whoever contravenes the provisions of subsection (1) shall be punished with rigorous
imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years, or with fine commensurate with the
nature of offence and harm, if any, caused to a particular registration or, database system as aforesaid
by such contravention, but in any case not less than one million rupees, or with both.
30. Other offences and penalties.—(1) Any person who
(a) does not, without reasonable cause, apply for registration required under this Ordinance;
(b) conceals, or refuses to furnish, any information he ought to disclose or furnish;
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