PART IIGAS SUPPLY AND ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES

Other functions of Director

Publication of information and advice

28.—(1) The Director shall arrange for the publication, in such form and in such manner as he considers appropriate, of such information and advice as it appears to him expedient to give to customers or potential customers of licence holders.

(2) In arranging for the publication of any such information or advice the Director shall have regard to the need for excluding, so far as that is practicable—

(a)any matter which relates to the affairs of an individual, where publication of that matter would or might, in the opinion of the Director, seriously and prejudicially affect the interests of that individual; and

(b)any matter which relates specifically to the affairs of a particular body of persons, whether corporate or unincorporate, where publication of that matter would or might, in the opinion of the Director, seriously and prejudicially affect the interests of that body.

(3) The Director General of Fair Trading shall consult the Director before publishing under section 124 of the 1973 Act (publication of information and advice) any information or advice which may be published by the Director under this Article.