Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Pt. 9 applied (N.I.) (1.4.2003) by The Energy (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/419) (N.I. 6), art. 63; S.R. 2003/203, art. 2, Sch.
Pt. 9 applied (20.6.2003) by S.I. 1990/1715, reg. 5 (as inserted by The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003 (S.I. 2003/1398), art. 2, Sch. para. 17(5))
C2Pt. 9 modified (1.10.2008) by Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 (c. 17), s. 29(3)-(7), 66(2) (with s. 6(9)); S.I. 2008/2550, art. 2, Sch.
C3Pt. 9 restricted (2.3.2009) by The Payment Services Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/209), regs. 1(2)(a), 119(3) (with reg. 3)
C4Pt. 9 applied (1.5.2009 for specified purposes, 1.11.2009 in so far as not already in force) by The Payment Services Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/209), reg. 1(2)(b)(c), 107 (with reg. 3)
(1)This section applies to specified information which relates to—
(a)the affairs of an individual;
(b)any business of an undertaking.
(2)Such information must not be disclosed—
(a)during the lifetime of the individual, or
(b)while the undertaking continues in existence,
unless the disclosure is permitted under this Part.
(3)But subsection (2) does not prevent the disclosure of any information if the information has on an earlier occasion been disclosed to the public in circumstances which do not contravene—
(a)that subsection;
(b)any other enactment or rule of law prohibiting or restricting the disclosure of the information.
(4)Nothing in this Part authorises a disclosure of information which contravenes the Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29).
(5)Nothing in this Part affects the Competition Appeal Tribunal.
(6)This Part (except section 244) does not affect any power or duty to disclose information which exists apart from this Part.
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C5S. 237 restricted (31.10.2003) by Railways and Transport Safety Act 2003 (c. 20), ss. 115, 120; S.I. 2003/2681, art. 2(b)
Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation
F1Act: for the words "solicitor of the Supreme Court of Northern Ireland" wherever they occur there is substituted (prosp.) the words "solicitor of the Court of Judicature of Northern Ireland" by virtue of Constitutional Reform Act 2005 (c. 4), ss. 59, 148(1), Sch. 11 para. 5 [Editorial Note: this amendment will be carried through into the text of the Act at the same time as any other effects on the Act for the year in which the relevant commencement order (or first such order) is made]