Schedule 7 (information: restrictions on disclosure) has effect.

Schedule 7 applies to disclosures made for the purposes of the criminal intelligence function.

Any duty to disclose information imposed on an NCA officer (including the duty of the Director General under paragraph 4 or 6 of Schedule 3 to disclose information by keeping other persons informed of information obtained by the NCA), and any power of an NCA officer to disclose information, has effect subject to Schedule 7.

Subsections (2) and (3) do not limit Schedule 7.