PART 5ENFORCEMENT

Information sharingI126

1

The Department and any authorised person may exchange information for the purposes of this Order, and may divulge information to any other enforcement authority in the UK for the purposes of this Order or the equivalent legislation applicable in the UK.

2

Disclosure of information which is authorised by this Article does not breach—

a

an obligation of confidence owed by the person making the disclosure; or

b

any other restriction on the disclosure of information (however imposed).

3

But nothing in this Article authorises the disclosure of information where doing so breaches—

a

the Data Protection Act 201813; or

b

Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC14.

4

This Article does not limit the circumstances in which information may be exchanged apart from this Article.