Part 7Further provisions relating to the Board and the OLC

Disclosure and use of information

I1167Restricted information

1

Except as provided by section 168, restricted information must not be disclosed—

a

by a restricted person, or

b

by any person who receives the information directly or indirectly from a restricted person.

2

In this section and section 168—

  • restricted information” means information (other than excluded information) which is obtained by the Board in the exercise of its functions;

  • restricted person” means—

    1. a

      the Board (including the Board in its capacity as an approved regulator or a licensing authority),

    2. b

      a person who exercises functions delegated under paragraph 23 of Schedule 1 or section 73 or by virtue of section 64(2)(k).

3

For the purposes of subsection (2) “excluded information” means—

a

information which is in the form of a summary or collection of information so framed as not to enable information relating to any particular person to be ascertained from it;

b

information which at the time of the disclosure is or has already been made available to the public from other sources;

c

information which was obtained more than 70 years before the date of the disclosure.