Companies Act 1948

175Saving for solicitors and bankers.

Nothing in the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act shall require disclosure to the Board of Trade or to an inspector appointed by them—

(a)by a solicitor of any privileged communication made to him in that capacity, except as respects the name and address of his client; or

(b)by a company's bankers as such of any information as to the affairs of any of their customers other than the company.