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The Freedom of Information (Removal and Relaxation of Statutory Prohibitions on Disclosure of Information) Order 2004
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Access to Justice Act 1999
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9. In section 20 of the Access to Justice Act 1999(1) (restriction of disclosure of information), after subsection (4) insert–
“(4A) Subsection (1) does not prevent the disclosure of information after the end of the restricted period, if–
(a)the disclosure is by a person who is, or is acting on behalf of a person who is, a public authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, and
(b)the information is not held by the authority on behalf of another person.
(4B) The restricted period is the period of one hundred years starting at the end of the calendar year in which a record containing the information was first created.”
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1999 c. 22. The disclosure powers under subsection (2) were extended by section 17 of, and paragraph 47 of Part I of Schedule 4 to, the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001.
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