Regulation 46 Supplementary provision for Part 6

(1)

A requirement imposed under this Part on the revenue collection counterparty, a CFD counterparty, the national system operator, a nuclear administrator or an RCC party is to be treated as a relevant requirement on that person as if they were a regulated person for the purposes of section 25 of the Electricity Act 1989^f1.

(2)

A person who discloses information as a result of this Part must exercise reasonable care as to its accuracy.

(3)

Nothing in this Part—

(a)

authorises or requires a disclosure of information if the disclosure would contravene the data protection legislation (but in determining whether a disclosure would do so, a requirement imposed under this Part is to be taken into account);

(b)

requires a person to disclose information that the person does not hold and is not entitled to obtain;

(c)

affects any power or duty to disclose or provide information or advice which exists apart from this Part.

(4)

In this regulation, “the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in section 3(9) of the Data Protection Act 2018^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1989 c. 29. Section 25 was amended by the Competition Act 1998 (c. 41), section 54(3) and Schedule 10; the Utilities Act 2000 (c. 27), sections 3(2), 60(1) to (3) and (5), 108, Schedule 6, and Schedule 8; the Consumers, Estate Agents and Redress Act 2007 (c. 17), section 63(1) and Schedule 7; the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 (c. 24), section 51(5) and Schedule 14; and S.I. 2011/2704, 2017/493, 2019/530, 2020/96.
f2: 2018 c. 12. Section 3(9) has been amended by S.I. 2019/419.