The Regulatory Reform (Collaboration etc. between Ombudsmen) Order 2007

Disclosure of information

9.  In section 32 of the 1974 Act (law of defamation, and disclosure of information)(1), in subsection (1), after paragraph (b) insert—

“(ba) the publication of any matter by a Local Commissioner or by any officer of the Commission, in communicating with the Parliamentary Commissioner or the Health Service Commissioner for England or any officer of either such Commissioner for the purposes of this Part of this Act;”.

(1)

A mended by the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 (c.65), s.184; the Official Secrets Act 1989 (c.6), Schedule 1, paragraph 1; the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (c.42), Schedule 11, paragraph 40; the Local Government Act 1988 (c.27), schedule 3, paragraph 8; the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c.38), Schedule 12, paragraph 16; the Public Services Ombudsman (Wales) Act 2005 (c.10), Schedule 6, paragraphs 7, 13; and the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (c. 36), Schedule 7, paragraph 3.