Confidential information
Section 10 – Confidential information
31.Section 10 provides that where the Treasury inform only a limited number of persons of an interim designation or a final designation the Treasury may specify that certain information contained in the notification is to be treated as confidential. Such a person (or another person who obtains the information) commits an offence if he or she discloses the information without lawful authority and knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect that it is to be treated as confidential (subsections (1), (2), (3) and (6)). Subsection (4) specifies the circumstances when information is disclosed with lawful authority, subsection (5) provides that section 10 does not apply to information that is already, or has previously been, available to the public from other sources and subsection (7) allows the person who is the subject of the information or the Treasury to apply to the appropriate court to grant an injunction (or interdict in Scotland) to prevent disclosure of the information.