Undeveloped Areas (Amendment) Act, 1957

Appointment of technical advisers.

11.—(1) The Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, may appoint technical advisers to advise him in connection with the payment of grants under section 3 of this Act and such advisers may be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas such fees or other remuneration as the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, determines.

(2) A technical adviser shall not disclose any information obtained by him in performing his duties as such adviser except in the course of a report made by him to the Minister.

(3) A person who contravenes subsection (2) of this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.