{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2023/section-113",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2023/section-113.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2023/52",
  "legislation_title": "Energy Act 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-act-2023",
  "path": "section/113",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "113",
  "heading": "Prohibition on disclosure of information or samples by OGA",
  "text": "(1) Protected material must not be disclosed—\n(a) by the OGA, or\n(b) by a subsequent holder,\nexcept in accordance with section 114 or Schedule 7.\n(2) In this section and in Schedule 7—\n“protected material” means information or samples which have been obtained by the OGA under section 112 or 124;\n“subsequent holder”, in relation to protected material, means a person holding protected material who has received it directly or indirectly from the OGA by virtue of a disclosure, or disclosures, in accordance with Schedule 7.\n(3) References to disclosing protected material include references to making the protected material available to other persons (where the protected material includes samples).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 113 in force at 26.12.2023, see s. 334(3)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/52/section/113",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:50:44.989649+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}