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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-information-dishwashers-regulations-1999/schedule-5/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-information-dishwashers-regulations-1999/schedule-5/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1676",
  "legislation_title": "The Energy Information (Dishwashers) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/energy-information-dishwashers-regulations-1999",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Restrictions on disclosure of information",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this paragraph, a person shall not disclose any information–\n(a) which was obtained by him in consequence of its being given to any person in compliance with any requirement imposed by these Regulations; or\n(b) which consists in a secret manufacturing process or trade secret and was obtained by him in consequence of the exercise by any person of any power or duty conferred by these Regulations.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) shall not apply to a disclosure of information if the information is publicised information or the disclosure is made–\n(a) for the purpose of facilitating the exercise of a relevant person’s functions under these Regulations or any enactment or subordinate legislation mentioned in sub-paragraph (3);\n(b) in pursuance of a Community obligation;\n(c) in connection with the investigation of any criminal offence or for the purposes of any civil or criminal proceedings; or\n(d) in pursuance of regulation 3 of the Environmental Information Regulations 1992.\n(3) The enactments and subordinate legislation referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(a) are–\n(a) the Trade Descriptions Act 1968;\n(b) Parts II and III and section 125 of the Fair Trading Act 1973;\n(c) the relevant statutory provisions within the meaning of Part I of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 or within the meaning of the Health and Safety at Work (Northern Ireland) Order 1978;\n(d) the Weights and Measures Act 1985;\n(e) the Weights and Measures (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;\n(f) the Consumer Protection Act 1987;\n(g) the Consumer Protection (Northern Ireland) Order 1987;\n(h) the Electrical Equipment (Safety) Regulations 1994; and\n(i) any subordinate legislation made for the purpose of securing compliance with the Directive of the Council of the European Communities, dated 10th September 1984 (No. 84/450/EEC) on the approximation of laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the member States concerning misleading advertising.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (2)(a) the reference to a person’s functions shall include a reference to any function of making, amending or revoking any regulations or order.\n(5) In this paragraph–\n“publicised information” means any information which has been disclosed in any civil or criminal proceedings; and\n“relevant person” means any of the following, that is to say–\n(a) a Minister of the Crown, Government Department or Northern Ireland Department;\n(b) the Director General of Fair Trading;\n(c) the Health and Safety Executive;\n(d) an enforcement authority;\n(e) any person who is charged with enforcing any of the enactments and subordinate legislation referred to in sub-paragraph (3).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/3240."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1968 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1973 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1974 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1039 (N.I. 9); to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1985 c. 72."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 1981/231 (N.I. 10); to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1987 c. 43."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2049 (N.I. 12); to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "S.I. 1994/3260."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "OJ No. L250, 19.9.84, p. 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2009/2559",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/3142",
      "affecting_title": "The Energy Information and Energy Efficiency (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1676/schedule/5/paragraph/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:35:29.926529+00:00"
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  "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."
}