395. No person employed by the Government or authorized by the Agency to exercise powers of inspection and investigation shall disclose or allow the disclosure to anyone of any information obtained by virtue of this Act or the regulations of the Government thereunder nor allow any document produced by virtue thereof to be examined except so far as authorized 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 itself may have access to information or a document contemplated in the first paragraph.
No person may be prosecuted on the basis of information transmitted in good faith to the Agency in accordance with this Act.
1987, c. 95, s. 395; 2002, c. 70, s. 175; 2002, c. 45, s. 611.