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(1) The Secretary may from time to time require returns to be made by growers, producers, distributors, processors, importers, exporters, or consumers of forest produce, and by other persons engaged in the forestry sector, and such returns shall give details as may be required relating to trees, timber, forest produce, or other goods grown, acquired, sawn, cut, manufactured, processed, converted, held, produced, sold, imported, exported, or disposed of.
(2) Information furnished to the Secretary under this section shall be used for statistical purposes only.
(3) All statistical information made available by the Secretary shall be arranged in such a manner as to prevent any particulars being identifiable by any person (other than the person by whom such particulars were supplied) as particulars relating to any particular person.
(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3) of this section the Secretary may disclose the following information:
(a) Information supplied by a person in respect of which disclosure is consented to in writing by the person who supplied it:
(b) Information available to the public under any Act or public document:
(c) Information supplied by a local authority.
(5) Except in respect of a prosecution under this Act, no return or copy of a return made pursuant to this Act shall be disclosed or used as evidence in any proceedings whatever, and no Forestry Officer shall be compelled to give oral testimony in any proceedings regarding any return.
Section 15B was inserted by section 7 Forests Amendment Act 1987.