49Information-sharingS
(1)Where a local authority and a Health Board are jointly preparing an integration scheme, each of them may disclose information to the other for or in relation to the purpose of preparing the scheme.
(2)Where two or more local authorities and a Health Board are jointly preparing an integration scheme, each of them may disclose information to any of the others for or in relation to the purpose of preparing the scheme.
(3)A person mentioned in subsection (4) may disclose information to any other person mentioned in that subsection for or in relation to either of the purposes mentioned in subsection (5).
(4)The persons are—
(a)a local authority,
(b)a Health Board,
(c)an integration joint board.
(5)The purposes are—
(a)the carrying out of integration functions,
(b)the preparation of a strategic plan.
(6)Subsections (1) to (3) apply despite any duty of confidentiality owed to any person in respect of the information by the person disclosing the information.