(1) A network operator or service provider or an employee or an agent of a network operator or service provider shall not disclose the information of a registered subscriber.

(2) Despite sub-regulation (1) a  network operator  or service provider

(a) may disclose the information of a  registered subscriber to a third  party for direct marketing purposes  if that network operator  or service provider has the prior written consent of that subscriber ;or

(b) Shall disclose the information of a registered subscriber if the network operator or service provider is ordered by a court or authorized under any other law to disclose the information.

(3) A network operator or service provider shall create an avenue for the registered subscriber, who consent to the release of that subscriber’s information to the third party for direct marketing, to opt of that direct marketing by sending a text message to a prescribed code of the network operator or service provider.