Hong Kong Ordinances

APPRENTICESHIP ORDINANCE - SECT 36

Duty of public officers not to disclose source of complaint, etc.

(1) Save as provided in subsection (4), no officer appointed under 
this Ordinance shall disclose to any person, other than another such officer,
the name or identity of any person who has made a complaint alleging a breach
of any term or condition of a registered contract of  apprenticeship or a
contravention of any provision of this Ordinance or as a result of which any
such breach or contravention has come to his notice or to the notice of any
other officer appointed under this Ordinance.

(2) No officer appointed under this Ordinance shall disclose to an employer of
a registered apprentice or his representative that a visit to the premises or
place where an apprentice is employed was made in consequence of the receipt
of any such complaint as is referred to in subsection (1).

(3) Save as provided in subsection (4), where as a result of or in connection
with the enforcement of a contract of apprenticeship or any provision of this
Ordinance any manufacturing or commercial secret or any working process comes
to the knowledge of an officer appointed under this  Ordinance, such officer
shall not at any time (whether or not at the relevant time he is still an
officer appointed under this Ordinance) disclose such secret or process to any
person.

(4) Where in any proceedings a court considers that justice so requires, the
court may order the disclosure of the name or identity of any person who has
made any such complaint as is referred to in subsection

(1) or the disclosure of any such secret or process as is referred to in
subsection (3).

(5) Any person who contravenes subsection (1), (2) or (3) shall be guilty of
an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $2000.

(6) In this section "officer appointed under this Ordinance"
(根據本條例獲 委任的人員) means the Director appointed under
section 33(1) or an officer appointed under section 33(2). (Added 34 of 1991
s. 6) (Amended 34 of 1991 s. 6)

"officer appointed under this Ordinance" (根據本條例獲委任的人員)