There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Subsidy Control Act 2022, Section 80.
(1)This section applies to a duty or power to disclose or use information where the duty or power is imposed or conferred by or under any provision of this Act.
(2)A duty or power to which this section applies does not operate to require or authorise the disclosure or use of information if the disclosure or use would contravene the data protection legislation (but the duty or power is to be taken into account in determining whether the disclosure or use would contravene that legislation).
(3)In Schedule 14 to the Enterprise Act 2002 (disclosure of information: specified functions), at the appropriate place insert—
“Subsidy Control Act 2022.”
(4)For the purposes of the law relating to defamation, absolute privilege attaches to any advice given, or report made, by the CMA (or a person acting on the CMA’s behalf) in the exercise of any functions of the CMA under this Act.
(5)In this section “data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act).
Commencement Information
I1S. 80 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 91(2)
I2S. 80 in force at 4.1.2023 by S.I. 2022/1359, reg. 2
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