(1)A monitoring authority may disclose any of its monitoring information to any other monitoring authority, or to any allocating authority, for the purpose of facilitating the carrying out by the recipient of any of its functions under this Chapter.
(2)An allocating authority may disclose any of its monitoring information to any other allocating authority for the purpose of facilitating the carrying out by the recipient of any of its functions under this Chapter.
(3)For the purposes of this section, a monitoring authority’s “monitoring information” is information or evidence—
(a)acquired by it in carrying out any of its functions under this Chapter, or
(b)disclosed to it after having been acquired by another monitoring authority in carrying out any of its functions under this Chapter.
(4)For the purposes of this section, an allocating authority’s “monitoring information” is information or evidence—
(a)acquired by it in carrying out any of its functions under this Chapter, or
(b)disclosed to it after having been acquired by a monitoring authority, or another allocating authority, in carrying out any of its functions under this Chapter.
(5)Subsections (1) and (2) shall be treated as additional to, and as not prejudicing the generality of, section 113 of the Environment Act 1995 (c. 25) (disclosure of information).