The Banking Coordination (Second Council Directive) Regulations 1992

Information supplied to Bank by relevant overseas authority etc.

41.  For section 86 of the Banking Act there shall be substituted the following section—

“86.    Information supplied to Bank by relevant overseas authority etc.

(1) Section 82 above applies also to information which—

(a) has been supplied to the Bank for the purposes of any relevant functions by the relevant supervisory authority in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom; or

(b) has been obtained for those purposes by the Bank, or by a person acting on its behalf, in another member State.

(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) below, information supplied or obtained as mentioned in subsection (1)(a) or (b) above shall not be disclosed except as provided by section 82 above or—

(a) for the purpose of enabling or assisting the Bank to discharge any relevant functions; or

(b) with a view to the institution of, or otherwise for the purposes of, criminal proceedings, whether under this Act or otherwise.

(3) Information supplied to the Bank for the purposes of any relevant functions by the relevant supervisory authority in another member State may be disclosed—

(a) to a relevant recipient, if the authority consents to its disclosure and the case is one in which information to which section 82 above applies could be so disclosed by virtue of section 84(1) or (2) above; or

(b) to the Treasury or the Secretary of State, if the authority consents to its disclosure and the case is one in which information to which section 82 above applies could be so disclosed by virtue of section 84(5) or (5A) above.

(4) Information obtained as mentioned in subsection (1)(b) above may be disclosed—

(a) to a relevant recipient, if the relevant supervisory authority in the member State concerned consents to its disclosure and the case is one in which information to which section 82 above applies could be so disclosed by virtue of section 84(1) or (2) above; or

(b) to the Treasury or the Secretary of State, if that authority consents to its disclosure and the case is one in which information to which section 82 above applies could be so disclosed by virtue of section 84(5) or (5A) above.

(5) In this section—

'relevant functions', in relation to the Bank, means its functions under this Act, its functions as a monetary authority and its functions as a supervisor of money market and gilt market institutions;

'relevant recipient' means a person specified in any of entries 1 to 8, 13 to 15 and 17 in the Table in section 84(1) above.”