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Version date: 11 October 2013 - onwards
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71. Confidentiality of information.

(1) Subject to subsection (2), during his term of office or at any time thereafter, an officer of a credit union shall not disclose or permit to be disclosed any information which concerns an account or transaction of a member with, or any other business of, the credit union.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a disclosure of information -

(a) if or to the extent that it is necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the credit union; or

(b) which is required by a court in connection with any proceedings; or

(c) which is made with the consent of the person to whom the information relates and, where not the same person, of the person from whom the information was obtained; or

(d) which, in a case where the credit union is acting or has acted as agent for a person, is made to that person in respect of that capacity; or

(e) where the information is in the form of a summary or collection of information and is so framed as not to enable information relating to a particular member to be ascertained from it; or

(f) which, in the opinion of the Bank, is necessary for the protection of the funds of shareholders in or depositors with the credit union or to safeguard the interests of the credit union; or