Article 48 Disclosure of confidential informationI1

England, Wales and Scotland

A person who—

(a)

enters a factory, workshop or workplace in pursuance of the provisions of article 20 (protective works to buildings, roads or apparatus of a statutory undertaker) or article 21 (power to survey and investigate land); and

(b)

discloses to any person any information obtained pursuant to sub-paragraph (a) and relating to any manufacturing process or trade secret,

is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale unless the disclosure is made in the course of that person’s performance of a duty in connection with the purposes for which the person was authorised to enter the land.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 48 in force at 13.11.2012, see art. 1