Malaysian Cocoa Board (Incorporation) Act 1988 · Updated to 1 Jan 2013 · Part V
23T. Obligation of secrecy
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
Except for the purposes of this Act or for the purposes of any civil or criminal proceedings under any written law or if otherwise authorized by the Board—
no member of the Board or any of its committees or any officer or servant or agent of the Board or any person attending any meeting of the Board or any of its committees, whether during his tenure of office or during his employment or after that, shall disclose any
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information obtained by him in the course of his duties;
and
no person who, by any means, has access to any record, book, register, correspondence, information, document or other material obtained under this Act or relating to the affairs of the Board shall disclose such record, book, register, correspondence, information, document or other material.
A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.
Terms defined in s 2
cocoa
Defined · s 2“cocoa” means the plant of the genus Theobroma or any related genus or species or any hybrids or clones of the genus or species, plants resulting from the crossing of these species, hybrids or clones with any other species, hybrids or clones of plants, and genetically engineered versions of these species, hybrids or clones, and includes cocoa beans and cocoa products;
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