391 (1) Everyone commits an offence who, by deceit, falsehood or other fraudulent means, knowingly obtains a trade secret or communicates or makes available a trade secret.
(2) Everyone commits an offence who knowingly obtains a trade secret or communicates or makes available a trade secret knowing that it was obtained by the commission of an offence under subsection (1).
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(4) For greater certainty, no person commits an offence under subsection (1) or (2) if the trade secret was obtained by independent development or by reason only of reverse engineering.
(5) For the purpose of this section, trade secret means any information that
(a) is not generally known in the trade or business that uses or may use that information;
183 In this Part,
offence means an offence contrary to, any conspiracy or attempt to commit or being an accessory after the fact in relation to an offence contrary to, or any counselling in relation to an offence contrary to
(a) any of the following provisions of this Act, namely,
(lxx.01) section 391 (trade secret),
(lxxiii) section 426 (secret commissions),
1 An offence under any of the following provisions of this Act:
(x.1) section 391 (trade secret);
(z.3) section 426 (secret commissions).
