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Part 3Other provisions

Chapter 1Sustainability certificates

Supplementary

289Disclosure of certificates etc.

(1)The appropriate national authority may by regulations make provision about the disclosure of—

(a)sustainability certificates, interim certificates or statements of the kind mentioned in section 279(1)(b),

(b)copies of any such documents,

(c)any information contained in, or derived from, any such documents or copies, or

(d)any information collected by an authorised assessor for the purposes of preparing a sustainability certificate or an interim certificate.

(2)A person who, without reasonable excuse, discloses anything whose disclosure is prohibited by regulations under subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.