The High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) (Greatmoor Railway Sidings Etc.) Order 2018

Disclosure of confidential information

23.  A person who—

(a)enters a factory, workshop or workplace under the provisions of paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the principal Act as applied to this Order pursuant to article 19 (application of the principal Act to authorised works); and

(b)discloses to any person any information obtained as a result of that entry and relating to any manufacturing process or trade secret,

is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale unless the disclosure is made in the course of that person’s performance of a duty in connection with the purposes for which the person was authorised to enter the land.