Section 50
Substitution of section 67
of Occupational Safety and Health (Amendment) Act 2022
The principal Act is amended by substituting for section 67
the following section:
“Confidentiality of information
Quoted provision
Section 67
Except for the purposes of this Act or for the purposes of any civil or criminal proceedings under this Act or any other written law, no person shall disclose any manufacturing or commercial secret which may at any time come to his knowledge or has been obtained by him in the course of his duties under this Act.
(2)
For the purposes of this section, “manufacturing or commercial secret” means highly sensitive information relating to—
(a)
any manufacturing process;
(b)
any product, raw material or by-product formulation;
(c)
any idea of duplication or cloning of product; or
(d)
any technical information on operating system, and that the information has been declared as manufacturing or commercial secret in writing by the occupier or owner.
(3)
A person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.”.