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SCHEDULE 1Amendments to the Merchant Shipping (Vessel Traffic Monitoring and Reporting Requirements) Regulations 2004

16.  In regulation 16 (confidentiality of information)—

(a)for paragraph (1) substitute—

(1) Subject to paragraph (4), no authority or member of staff of an authority shall—

(a)disclose any confidential information which has been obtained by, or furnished to, that authority or member of staff, as the case may be, under or for the purposes of the Directive and these Regulations; or

(b)use any such information,

unless the disclosure or use is made with lawful justification.;

(b)in paragraph (2), (2)(a), (b), (c) and (d) after “disclosure” insert “or use”.