http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/36/section/12ACivil Contingencies Act 2004An Act to make provision about civil contingencies.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2024-10-23Expert Participation2024-10-01 Civil Contingencies Act 2004Sch. 1 para. 11ANatural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006Sch. 11 para. 174s. 107Civil Contingencies Act 2004Sch. 1 para. 19(2)(d) and wordEnergy Act 2023Sch. 17 para. 15(2)(b)s. 334(1)Civil Contingencies Act 2004Sch. 1 para. 30(2)(d) and wordEnergy Act 2023Sch. 17 para. 15(3)(b)s. 334(1) Part 1 12A1A Minister of the Crown may, for the purposes mentioned in subsection (2), make regulations addressing the provision or disclosure of national security information.2Regulations under this section are to apply for the purposes of any regulations or order made by the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland under this Part; and any regulations or order made by the Department has effect subject to regulations under this section.3“National security information” means information the disclosure of which to the public would, or would be likely to, adversely affect national security.4Regulations under this section may (in particular)—aprovide that national security information is not to be provided or disclosed, or is to be provided or disclosed only in specified circumstances or in a specified way, despite any provision of regulations or an order made by the Department of Justice;bprovide that a certificate signed by a Minister of the Crown certifying that the disclosure of information to the public would, or would be likely to, adversely affect national security is conclusive evidence of that fact;cprovide that such a certificate may identify the information to which it applies by means of a general description and may be expressed to apply to information within that description that comes into existence after the certificate is made;dconfer other functions on a Minister of the Crown or any other specified person or body (and a function conferred may, in particular, be a power or duty to exercise a discretion).S. 12A inserted (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), arts. 1(2), 5, Sch. 3 para. 103 (with arts. 28-31, Sch. 3 para. 110)