Section 37Part 5 — GENDER EQUALITY TRIBUNAL
Confidentiality
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37. (1) Subject to subsection (4), a person who is, or has at any time been a member shall not, either directly or indirectly —
divulge or communicate to any person, any information relating to the affairs of another person acquired by the member because of his office for the purposes of this Law;
make use of any such information as is mentioned in paragraph (a); or
produce to any person a document relating to the affairs of another person given for the purposes of this Law.
A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars.
A person who is, or has at any time been a member, shall not be required —
to divulge or communicate to a court any information relating to the affairs of another person acquired by the member because of his office for the purposes of this Law; or
to produce in a court a document relating to the affairs of another person of which the member has custody, or to which he has access, because of his office for the purposes of this Law, except where it is necessary to do so for the purposes of this Law.
This section shall not prohibit a person from —
making a record of information for the purposes of exercising a function under this Law or any other law in force in the Islands; or
divulging or communicating information, or producing a document that is required or permitted by a Law to be divulged, communicated or produced as the case may be, if the information is divulged or communicated, or the document is produced, for the purposes of or under that Law.
A defendant bears an evidential burden in relation to a matter in subsection (4).
Subsection (3) shall not prevent a person from being required, for the purposes of or under a Law, to divulge or communicate information, or to produce a document, that is required or permitted by that Law to be divulged, communicated or produced.
In this section — “court” includes any tribunal, authority or person having power to require the production of documents or the answering of questions; and “produce” includes permit access to. Gender Equality Law, 2011 Section 38 c Law 21 of 2011 Page 21