ACT 372 BANKING AND FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ACT 1989
PART XIII - INFORMATION AND SECRECY
Section 97. Secrecy.
(1) No director or officer of any licensed institution, or of any external bureau established, or any agent appointed, by the licensed institution to undertake any part of its business whether during his tenure of office, or during his employment, or thereafter, and no person who for any reason, has by any means access to any record, book, register, correspondence, or other document whatsoever, or material, relating to the affairs or, in particular, the account, of any particular customer of the institution, shall give, produce, divulge, reveal, publish or otherwise disclose, to any person, or make a record for any person, of any information or document whatsoever relating to the affairs or account of such customer.
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(2) This section shall not apply to any information or document which at the time of the disclosure is, or has already been made, lawfully available to the public from any source other than the licensed institution, or to any information which is in the form of a summary or collection of information set out in such manner as does not enable information relating to any particular licensed institution or any particular customer of the licensed institution to be ascertained from it.
(3) No person who has any information or document which to his knowledge has been disclosed in contravention of subsection (1) shall in any manner howsoever disclose the same to any other person.