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Grounds for refusal to release information

5.—(1) The following circumstances are specified for the purposes of section 68(8)(c) of the Justice (Northern Ireland) Act 2002 (circumstances in which the Secretary of State is not required to make information available under the scheme).

(2) The circumstances are that –

(a)it appears to the Secretary of State that to make the information available under this scheme –

(i)would be punishable as a contempt of court;

(ii)would be contrary to any enactment; or

(iii)would constitute an unwarranted interference with the rights of the imprisoned offender;

(b)the actual victim of the offence is not a natural person;

(c)the imprisoned offender was convicted of the offence of which the person is the victim before the coming into operation of this scheme and he has less than three months left to serve;

(d)the imprisoned offender was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of less than 6 months; or

(e)the Secretary of State has received an application for information under this scheme from a person acting instead of the actual victim under Article 3 and he has accepted that application, and that a subsequent application is made under Article 3 in relation to the same actual victim.