(2) If the Permit Officer is temporarily absent or for any reason temporarily unable to perform his duties, the Minister for Home Affairs may appoint an Assistant Permit Officer or other person to act in the place of the Permit Officer during such period of absence from duty.
(3) The Permit Officer may, in writing, authorise any officer to perform or to assist in the performance of any duty imposed on, or to exercise any power conferred upon, the Permit Officer by this Act other than section 26.
Appointment of Commissioner, etc.
5.—(1) For the purposes of this Act, the Minister for Finance may, by notification in the Gazette, appoint a Commissioner of Betting Duties and such number of Deputy Commissioners of Betting Duties and Assistant Commissioners of Betting Duties as he thinks fit.
(2) The Commissioner may, in writing, authorise any officer of a public authority to perform or to assist in the performance of any duty imposed on, or to exercise any power conferred upon, the Commissioner by this Act.
Official secrecy
6.—(1) Every person having any official duty or being employed in the administration of this Act shall regard and deal with all documents, information, returns and assessments relating to duty under this Act, or the supply of any goods and services or income of any promoter of a private lottery, as secret and confidential, and may be required by the Commissioner to make or subscribe a declaration to that effect in the form determined by the Commissioner.
(2) Every person having possession or control over any document, information, return or assessment in relation to duty under this Act, or the supply of any goods and services or income of any promoter of a private lottery, who at any time otherwise for the purpose of this Act or with the express authority of the President—
- (a) communicates or attempts to communicate such information or anything contained in such documents or copies to any person; or
- (b) suffers or permits any person to have access to any such information or to anything contained in such documents or copies,
