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CAP. 134]

Dangerous Drugs

[1988 Ed.

(b) the publication of statistical information on drug abuse and on

various forms of treatment of drug abuse.

(2) The Central Registry of Drug Addicts existing at the commencement of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Ordinance 1981 (65 of 1981) and maintained by the Narcotics Division of the Security Branch of the Government shall be the Central Registry of Drug Abuse for the purposes of subsection (1).

Immunity of records from search and from production in

court

49C. (1) No search warrant shall be issued, or if issued be executed, in respect of

any record of confidential information which is kept by the Registry or by a reporting agency.

(2) Save as provided in this Part, no power, or right, of search conferred by any law shall authorize the search of records of confidential information which are kept by the Registry or by a reporting agency.

(3) No process shall lie in any proceedings to compel production of any record of confidential information which is kept by the Registry or by a reporting agency, and no such record, nor any information obtained therefrom, shall be admissible in evidence, save-

(a) in proceedings for an offence under this Part; or

(b) where the record is the subject of an order of the Attorney General

which is in force under section 49G,

but nothing in this subsection shall render admissible anything which is otherwise inadmissible.

Prohibition against disclosure of records

49D. (1) Subject to subsection (2), any person who-

(a) discloses any record of confidential information which is kept by the Registry or a reporting agency, or supplies to any person information obtained from any such record; or

(b) permits access to any such record,

commits an offence and is liable to a fine of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6

months.

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply where the disclosure is made, or access is permitted-

(a) in accordance with an authorization given under section 49E;

(b) in accordance with an authorization given under section 49F;

(c) in accordance with an order of the Attorney General made under

section 49G;

(d) to the Commissioner or a reporting agency director, or to an employee of the Registry or of a reporting agency, for the purpose of treating a drug abuser for his drug addiction or of assisting him in his rehabilitation;

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