Part 7Further provisions relating to the Board and the OLC
Disclosure and use of information
167Restricted information
(1)
Except as provided by section 168, restricted information must not be disclosed—
(a)
by a restricted person, or
(b)
by any person who receives the information directly or indirectly from a restricted person.
(2)
In this section and section 168—
“restricted information” means information (other than excluded information) which is obtained by the Board in the exercise of its functions;
“restricted person” means—
(a)
the Board (including the Board in its capacity as an approved regulator or a licensing authority),
(b)
a person who exercises functions delegated under paragraph 23 of Schedule 1 or section 73 or by virtue of section 64(2)(k).
(3)
For the purposes of subsection (2) “excluded information” means—
(a)
information which is in the form of a summary or collection of information so framed as not to enable information relating to any particular person to be ascertained from it;
(b)
information which at the time of the disclosure is or has already been made available to the public from other sources;
(c)
information which was obtained more than 70 years before the date of the disclosure.