Part V Miscellaneous and supplemental

Supplemental

115 Disclosure of information.

(1)

Any person who, apart from this subsection, would not have power to disclose information—

(a)

to a relevant authority; or

(b)

to a person acting on behalf of such an authority,

shall have power to do so in any case where the disclosure is necessary or expedient for the purposes of any provision of this Act.

(2)

In F1this section“relevant authority” means—

(a)

the chief officer of police for a police area in England and Wales;

(b)

the chief constable of a police force maintained under the M1Police (Scotland) Act 1967;

(c)

a police authority within the meaning given by section 101(1) of the M2Police Act 1996;

(d)

a local authority, that is to say—

(i)

in relation to England, a county council, a district council, a London borough council F2, a parish council or the Common Council of the City of London;

(ii)

in relation to Wales, a county council F3, a county borough council or a community council ;

(iii)

in relation to Scotland, a council constituted under section 2 of the M3Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;

F4(da)

a person registered under section 1 of the Housing Act 1996 as a social landlord;

(e)

a F5local probation board in England and Wales;

F6(ea)

a Strategic Health Authority;

(f)

a F7Local Health Board

F8(g)

a Primary Care Trust;

F9(h)

the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority;

(i)

a fire and rescue authority constituted by a scheme under section 2 of the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004 or a scheme to which section 4 of that Act applies;

(j)

a metropolitan county fire and rescue authority.

F10(3)

The appropriate national authority may by order amend this section so far as it extends to England and Wales by—

(a)

adding an entry for any person or body to the list of authorities in subsection (2),

(b)

altering or repealing any entry for the time being included in the list, or

(c)

adding, altering or repealing provisions for the interpretation of entries in the list.

(4)

In subsection (3) “the appropriate national authority” has the same meaning as in section 5.