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by omitting paragraph (c) of the definition of "dependant" in sub-section               (1) and substituting the following paragraph:
    "(c) a person of the opposite sex to the employee who, throughout the period of 3 years immediately before the date of the death of the employee, lived with the employee as the spouse of that employee on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to that employee,".

77. After section 24 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Part II:

Officers to observe secrecy
"24a. (1) A person shall not, directly or indirectly, except in the performance of the duties, or in the exercise of the powers or functions, of the person under this Act, and while the person is, or after the person ceases to be, an officer, make a record of, or divulge or communicate to any person, any information with respect to the affairs of another person acquired by the first-mentioned person in the performance of the duties, or in the exercise of the powers or functions, of the first-mentioned person under this Act or under any Act repealed by this Act.

"(2) A person who is, or has been, an officer shall not, except for the purposes of this Act, be required—
   (a) to produce in court any document that has come into the possession, or under the control, of the person in the performance of duties or functions by the person under this Act or any Act repealed by this Act; or
   (b) to divulge or communicate to a court any matter or thing that has come to the notice of the person in the performance of any such duties or functions.
"(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the preceding provisions of this section, an officer may—
   (a) if the Minister or the Commissioner certifies that it is necessary in the public interest that any information acquired by the officer in the performance of the duties of the officer, or in the exercise of the powers or functions of the officer, under this Act or under any Act repealed by this Act, should be divulged, divulge that information to such person as the Minister or the Commissioner directs;
   (b) divulge any such information to any prescribed authority or person; or
   (c) divulge any such information to a person who, in the opinion of the Commissioner, is expressly or impliedly authorized by the person to whom the information relates to obtain it.
"(4) An authority or person to whom information is divulged under sub-section (3), and any person or employee under the control of that authority or person, shall, in respect of that information, be subject to the same rights, privileges, obligations and liabilities