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PART 6U.K.Information and records

Part 6: supplementaryU.K.

31.—(1) A disclosure of information under regulation 30 (disclosure of information) [F1or 30A (finance: disclosure to the Treasury)] does not breach any restriction on such disclosure imposed by statute or otherwise.

(2) But nothing in [F2those regulations] authorises a disclosure that—

(a)contravenes the data protection legislation, or

(b)is prohibited by any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 M1.

(3) Nothing in this Part is to be read as requiring a person who has acted or is acting as counsel or solicitor for any person to disclose any privileged information in their possession in that capacity.

(4) [F3Regulations 30 and 30A do] not limit the circumstances in which information may be disclosed apart from [F4those regulations].

(5) Nothing in this Part limits any conditions which may be contained in a Treasury licence.

(6) In this regulation—

the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act) M2;

privileged information” means information with respect to which a claim to legal professional privilege (in Scotland, to confidentiality of communications) could be maintained in legal proceedings.

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 31 in force at 31.12.2020 by S.I. 2020/1514, reg. 13(2)

Marginal Citations

M12016 c.25. Amendments have been made by the Policing and Crime Act 2017, Schedule 9, paragraph 74; the Data Protection Act 2018 (c.12), Schedule 19, paragraphs 198-203; S.I. 2018/652 and S.I. 2018/1123. Saving provisions are made by S.I. 2017/859.

M22018 c.12. There are amendments to this Act but none is relevant to these Regulations.