Section 55: Disclosure etc. of information: offences
390.This section amends section 241 of the EA 2002 to provide expressly that a person to whom information is disclosed under that section cannot, unless the information has been made available to the public, use that information for any purpose other than is mentioned in section 241(1). Section 241(1) enables a public authority to disclose information in order to facilitate the exercise of the disclosing authority’s statutory functions. Section 241 is one of the gateways for the disclosure of information in Part 9 of the EA 2002. Disclosing or using information in breach of the provisions of Part 9 is a criminal offence under section 245 of that Act.