PART 14Monitoring and enforcement

CHAPTER 5Restrictions on disclosure of information

SECTION 2Exceptions to prohibition against disclosure of protected information

Legal proceedings, inquiries and investigations263.

(1)

Regulation 255 does not prohibit a disclosure of protected information for the purposes of—

(a)

any legal proceedings;

(b)

an investigation under section 20;

(c)

any report of such proceedings or investigation.

(2)

Regulation 255 does not prohibit a disclosure of protected information which is made—

(a)

by the regulator or an inspector, and

(b)

for any of the purposes specified in section 17(2)(a) to (d) (criminal proceedings and investigation) of the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 200172.