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Section 32
1(1)The Commissioner for Investigations must, from time to time, identify any information held by the ICRIR which (in that Commissioner’s opinion) is—
(a)sensitive information, or
(b)prejudicial information.
(2)That duty does not require the Commissioner for Investigations to identify information as sensitive information, or as prejudicial information, if (in accordance with paragraph 2 or 3) a relevant authority has notified the Commissioner for Investigations that that authority has identified the information as that kind of information.
2(1)This paragraph applies if a relevant authority is proposing to make any information available to the ICRIR (whether in accordance with section 5 or otherwise).
(2)The relevant authority must identify any of the information which, in the relevant authority’s opinion, is—
(a)sensitive information, or
(b)prejudicial information.
(3)When making the information available to the ICRIR, the relevant authority must notify the Commissioner for Investigations of any of the information which the relevant authority has identified in accordance with this paragraph.
3(1)This paragraph applies if a person other than a relevant authority—
(a)is proposing to make any information available to the ICRIR, or
(b)has made any information available to the ICRIR.
(2)A relevant authority may identify any of the information which (in the relevant authority’s opinion) is—
(a)sensitive information, or
(b)prejudicial information.
(3)The relevant authority must notify the Commissioner for Investigations of any of the information which that relevant authority has identified in accordance with this paragraph.
4A notification of information under paragraph 2 or 3 must include a statement of whether, in the relevant authority’s opinion, the information would, if disclosed generally, be—
(a)sensitive information,
(b)prejudicial information, or
(c)information of both of those kinds.
5The Secretary of State may notify the Commissioner for Investigations of—
(a)any information held by the ICRIR, or
(b)any information which any person is proposing to make available to the ICRIR,
which, in the Secretary of State’s opinion, is protected international information.
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