The Oversight of Professional Body Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing Supervision Regulations 2017

Provision of information: safeguards U.K.

9.—(1) A person may not be required under regulation 7—

(a) to produce excluded material, or

(b) to provide information, produce documents or answer questions which that person would be entitled to refuse to provide, produce or answer on grounds of legal professional privilege in proceedings in the High Court.

(2) The provision of information in accordance with regulation 7 is not to be taken to breach any restriction on the disclosure of information, however imposed.

(3) Where a disclosure is made in good faith in accordance with regulation 7 no civil liability arises in respect of the disclosure on the part of the person by whom, or on whose behalf, it is made.

(4) In the application of this regulation to Scotland, the references in paragraph (1)—

(a) to proceedings in the High Court are to be read as references to proceedings in the Court of Session, and

(b) to an entitlement on grounds of legal professional privilege are to be read as references to an entitlement on the grounds of confidentiality of communication—

(i) between professional legal advisers and their clients, or

(ii) made in connection with or in contemplation of legal proceedings and for the purposes of those proceedings.

(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1)—

“excluded material” means personal records which a person has acquired or created in the course of any trade, business, profession or other occupation or for the purposes of any paid or unpaid office and which is held subject—

(a)

to an express or implied undertaking to hold it in confidence; or

(b)

to a restriction on disclosure or an obligation of secrecy contained in any enactment, including an enactment contained in, or made under, an Act passed after these Regulations;

“personal records” means documentary and other records concerning an individual (whether living or dead) who can be identified from them and relating to the individual's physical or mental health.