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(1) The Authority may direct a person who at the date of the directive or at a subsequent time carries on a business which includes the production, importation or use of articles to which this Part applies, to furnish the Authority, within a period specified in the directive, specified particulars on the composition and use of the substance sold or for sale in the course of that business or used in the preparation of products regulated by the Authority.

(2) Directives made under subsection (1) may require the following particulars to be furnished in respect of the substance:

(a) particulars on the composition and chemical formula of the substance;

(b) particulars of the investigations carried out by or to the knowledge of the persons carrying on the business, to determine whether and to what extent the substance used is injurious to or in any other way affect health; and

(c) particulars of the investigations or inquiries carried out by or to the knowledge of the person carrying on the business for the purpose of determining the cumulative effect on the health of a person consuming the substance in ordinary quantities.

(3) Particulars furnished in accordance with directives under this section and information on the particulars shall not, without the previous consent in writing of the persons carrying on the business, be disclosed except for the purposes of prosecution of for an offence under this Part.

(4) A person who discloses any particulars or an information in contravention of subsection (3), commits an offence.