16. No person employed by the Government or authorized by the Inspector General to exercise the powers conferred by sections 10 to 12 or to make an inquiry shall communicate or allow to be communicated to anyone information obtained under this Act, or allow the examination of a document filed under this Act, unless the person is authorized to do so by the Inspector General.
Notwithstanding sections 9, 23, 24 and 59 of the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information (chapter A-2.1), only a person generally or specially authorized by the Inspector General himself may have access to such information or such a document.
No person shall be prosecuted on information he has given in good faith to the Inspector General in accordance with this act.
1974, c. 70, s. 16; 1977, c. 5, s. 14; 1982, c. 52, s. 80; 1987, c. 68, s. 22.