Version Superseded: 25/05/2007
Point in time view as at 30/11/2000. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Section 81.
(1)For the purposes of this Act each government department is to be treated as a person separate from any other government department.
(2)Subsection (1) does not enable—
(a)a government department which is not a Northern Ireland department to claim for the purposes of section 41(1)(b) that the disclosure of any information by it would constitute a breach of confidence actionable by any other government department (not being a Northern Ireland department), or
(b)a Northern Ireland department to claim for those purposes that the disclosure of information by it would constitute a breach of confidence actionable by any other Northern Ireland department.
(3)A government department is not liable to prosecution under this Act, but section 77 and paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 apply to a person in the public service of the Crown as they apply to any other person.
(4)The provisions specified in subsection (3) also apply to a person acting on behalf of either House of Parliament or on behalf of the Northern Ireland Assembly as they apply to any other person.
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