Part I Fire Safety
Inspections of premises
11 Disclosure of information obtained in premises.
Section 21 of the principal Act (restriction on disclosure of information obtained in premises) shall be amended—
a
by the insertion, at the beginning, of the words “(1) Subject to subsection (2) below,”; and
b
by the insertion, at the end, of the following subsections—
2
Nothing in subsection (1) above prohibits the disclosure of information to an enforcing authority within the meaning of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 in order to enable that authority to discharge any function falling within its field of responsibility.
3
Section 18(7) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (meaning in Part I of that Act of “enforcing authority” and of such an authority’s “field of responsibility”) shall apply for the purposes of this section as it applies for the purposes of that Part.