Part 3Other measures to prevent or disrupt serious and other crime
Chapter 1Prevention of fraud
Sharing information with anti-fraud organisations
68Disclosure of information to prevent fraud
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A public authority may, for the purposes of preventing fraud or a particular kind of fraud, disclose information as a member of a specified anti-fraud organisation or otherwise in accordance with any arrangements made by such an organisation.
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The information—
a
may be information of any kind; and
b
may be disclosed to the specified anti-fraud organisation, any members of it or any other person to whom disclosure is permitted by the arrangements concerned.
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Disclosure under this section does not breach—
a
any obligation of confidence owed by the public authority disclosing the information; or
b
any other restriction on the disclosure of information (however imposed).
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But nothing in this section authorises any disclosure of information which—
a
contravenes F1the data protection legislation; or
b
is prohibited by F3any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
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This section does not limit the circumstances in which information may be disclosed apart from this section.
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In this section—
“an anti-fraud organisation” means any unincorporated association, body corporate or other person which enables or facilitates any sharing of information to prevent fraud or a particular kind of fraud or which has any of these functions as its purpose or one of its purposes;
F2“ the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act).
“information” includes documents;
“public authority” means any public authority within the meaning of section 6 of the Human Rights Act 1998 (c. 42) (acts of public authorities); and
“specified” means specified by an order made by the Secretary of State.