# The Deregulation and Contracting Out (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, Paragraph 2


The enactment or obligation does not prevent or penalise the disclosure of relevant information—
(a) between contractor A or an employee of his and authority A or an authorised officer of that authority;
(b) between contractor A and an employee of his or between one such employee and another; or
(c) where the relevant function has been delegated to authority A by another Department, Minister, office-holder or district council ( “authority B”), between contractor A or an employee of his and authority B or an authorised officer of that authority,
if the disclosure is necessary or expedient in or in connection with, or for the purpose of facilitating, the exercise of the relevant function or a related function or the performance of ancillary services.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1996/1632/schedule/4/paragraph/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/deregulation-and-contracting-out-northern-ireland-order-1996/schedule-4/paragraph-2
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