# The Deregulation and Contracting Out (Northern Ireland) Order 1996, Paragraph 4


(1) This paragraph applies where another person ( “contractor C”) is authorised to exercise a function of another Department, Minister, office-holder or district council ( “authority C”).
(2) The enactment or obligation does not prevent or penalise the disclosure of relevant information by contractor A or an employee of his, or authority A or an authorised officer of that authority; to contractor C or an employee of his, if—
(a) the disclosure is necessary or expedient for the purpose of facilitating the exercise of the relevant function, a related function or a function of authority C;
(b) where the disclosure is by contractor A or an employee of his, the disclosure falls within a description of disclosures certified by authority A (whether in the authorisation or otherwise) to be capable of being so necessary or expedient; and
(c) the information could be lawfully disclosed, for that purpose, by authority A to authority C.

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