Part 6Legal Complaints
Information
151Restricted information
(1)
Except as provided by section 152, restricted information must not be disclosed—
(a)
by a restricted person, or
(b)
by any person who receives the information directly or indirectly from a restricted person.
(2)
In this section and section 152—
“restricted information” means information (other than excluded information) which is obtained by a restricted person in the course of, or for the purposes of, an investigation into a complaint made under the ombudsman scheme (including information obtained for the purposes of deciding whether to begin such an investigation or in connection with the settlement of a complaint);
“restricted person” means—
(a)
the OLC,
(b)
an ombudsman, or
(c)
a person who exercises functions delegated under paragraph 22 of Schedule 15.
(3)
For the purposes of subsection (2) “excluded information” means—
(a)
information which is in the form of a summary or collection of information so framed as not to enable information relating to any particular person to be ascertained from it;
(b)
information which at the time of the disclosure is or has already been made available to the public from other sources;
(c)
information which was obtained more than 70 years before the date of the disclosure.