Section 34: Reports of board of enquiry.

(1) A board of inquiry appointed under section 33 of this Act may, if it thinks fit, make interim reports.
(2) Every report of such a board of inquiry, including any interim report and any minority report, shall be submitted to the Minister.
(3) Subject to subsection (4) of this section, the Minister may cause to be published, at such time or times and in such manner as he thinks fit, any information obtained or conclusions reached by any such board of inquiry in the course of or as a result of its inquiry.
(4) Except with the consent required by this subsection there shall not be included in any report made by such a board of inquiry, or in any publication authorised by the Minister under this section, any information obtained by the board in the course of its inquiry-
(a) with respect to any trade union; or
(b) with respect to any particular business or undertaking, whether carried on by a particular individual, a firm or a company or other body corporate,
being in either case information which is not available otherwise than through evidence given at the inquiry.
(5) The consent required by subsection (4) of this section is, in the case of information with respect to a trade union, consent given on behalf of the union by an official thereof authorised by the union to give that consent and, in the case of information with respect to any business or undertaking, consent given by or on behalf of the individual, firm, company or other body corporate carrying on the business or undertaking.
(6) If any individual member of a board of inquiry appointed under section 33 of this Act, or any other person concerned in the inquiry, discloses any such information as is mentioned in subsection (4) of this section without the consent required by that subsection, he shall be guilty of an offence and be liable on conviction to a fine of N 200.