79Academy arrangements: information sharing
(1)This section applies if the Secretary of State and the YPLA enter into Academy arrangements.
(2)A person within subsection (3) may provide information to any other person within that subsection for the purpose of enabling or facilitating the exercise of any relevant function.
(3)The persons are—
(a)the Secretary of State;
(b)the YPLA;
(c)a relevant Academy;
(d)any other person by or in respect of whom a relevant function is exercisable.
(4)A “relevant function” is—
(a)a function conferred or imposed on the YPLA under the arrangements;
(b)a function of the Secretary of State, a relevant Academy, or any other person, which is exercisable in connection with a function conferred or imposed on the YPLA under the arrangements.
(5)A “relevant Academy” is an Academy, city technology college or city college for the technology of the arts in relation to which a function is exercisable by the YPLA under the arrangements.
(6)Nothing in this section—
(a)affects a power to disclose information that exists apart from this section, or
(b)authorises the disclosure of any information in contravention of a provision made by or under any Act which prevents disclosure of the information.