16(1)Regulations under this Schedule may include provision that (so far as it does not have power to do so apart from the regulations) an authority may supply relevant information to another authority, even if it is not requested to supply the information.E+W+S
(2)For the purposes of this paragraph information is relevant information if—
(a)it was obtained by the first-mentioned authority in exercising its functions under Part I or II of this Act;
(b)it believes it would be useful to the other authority in exercising its functions under either of those Parts; and
(c)it does not fall within any prescribed description of information which is not to be supplied.
[F1(3)Information may be prescribed under sub-paragraph (2)(c) by reference to—
(a)how the first-mentioned authority obtained the information;
(b)the purpose for which the first-mentioned authority believes that the information would be useful to the other authority.]
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 para. 16(3) inserted (31.10.2012) by Local Government Finance Act 2012 (c. 17), s. 17(5)