16. No person employed by the Agency or authorized by the Agency to exercise the powers to make an inspection or inquiry shall communicate or allow to be communicated to anyone information obtained under this Act or a regulation made by the Government, or allow the examination of a document filed under this Act or the regulation, unless the person is authorized to do so by the Agency. The same applies to any information or document relating to the application of guidelines and provided voluntarily to the Agency.
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 Agency may have access to such information or such a document. No person may be prosecuted on the basis of information transmitted in good faith to the Agency in accordance with this Act.
2002, c. 45, s. 16; 2002, c. 70, s. 177.