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Finance Act 1978
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77 Disclosure of information to tax authorities in other member States.U.K.
(1)No obligation as to secrecy imposed by statute or to otherwise shall preclude the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or an authorised officer of those Commissioners from disclosing to the competent authorities of another member State any information required to be so disclosed by virtue of the Directive of the Council of the European Communities dated 19th December 1977 No. 77/799/EEC.
(2)Neither the Commissioners nor an authorised officer shall disclose any information in pursuance of the said Directive unless satisfied that the competent authorities of the other State are bound by, or have undertaken to observe, rules of confidientiality with respect to the information which are not less strict than those applying to it in the United Kingdom.
(3)Nothing in this section shall permit the Commissioners of Inland Revenue or an authorised officer of those Commissioners to authorise the use of information disclosed by virtue of the said Directive other than for the purposes of taxation or to facilitate legal proceedings for failure to observe the tax laws of the receiving State.
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C1S. 77 extended by Finance Act 1990 (c. 48), s. 17(2) and by Finance Act 1990 (c. 29), s. 125(5)(6)
C2The text of ss. 8, 9, 77, 80(3)(b) and Schs. 1, 11 and 13 is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.
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