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41.—(1) Where a transferee company or merging company entrusts a person, pursuant to the provisions of this Part, with any information or document on terms requiring it to be held in confidence, the person shall not disclose that information or document except in accordance with the terms on which it was disclosed to him.
(2) In this regulation a person referred to in paragraph (1) to whom information or a document is entrusted is referred to as a “recipient”.
(3) The obligation to comply with paragraph (1) is a duty owed to the company that disclosed the information or document to the recipient and a breach of the duty is actionable accordingly (subject to the defences and other incidents applying to actions for breach of statutory duty).
(4) Paragraph (3) does not affect any legal liability which any person may incur by disclosing the information or document, or any right which any person may have in relation to such disclosure otherwise than under this regulation.
(5) No action shall lie under paragraph (3) where the recipient reasonably believed the disclosure to be a protected disclosure within the meaning given to that expression by section 43A of the 1996 Act(1).
(6) A recipient may apply to the CAC for a declaration as to whether it was reasonable for the company to require the recipient to hold the information or document in confidence.
(7) If the CAC considers that the disclosure of the information or document by the recipient would not, or would not be likely to, harm the legitimate interests of the undertaking, it shall make a declaration that it was not reasonable for the company to require the recipient to hold the information or document in confidence.
(8) If a declaration is made under paragraph (7), the information or document shall not at any time thereafter be regarded as having been entrusted to any recipient on terms requiring it to be held in confidence.
Section 43A was inserted into the 1996 Act by the Public Interest Disclosure Act (c.23), section 1.
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