Paragraph 13 C1
United Kingdom
The Secretary of State may communicate to a designated agency any information in his possession of which he could have availed himself for the purpose of exercising any function which by virtue of a delegation order is for the time being exercisable by the agency.
A designated agency may in the exercise of any function which by virtue of a delegation order is for the time being exercisable by it communicate to any other person any information which has been communicated to the agency by the Secretary of State and which the Secretary of State could have communicated to that person in the exercise of that function.
No communication of information under sub-paragraph (1) above shall constitute publication for the purposes of the law of defamation.
Annotations
Modifications
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Sch. 9 para. 13: certain functions of the Secretary of State made exercisable concurrently by the Secretary of State and the Treasury (7.6.1992) by S.I. 1992/1315, art. 5, Sch. 3 para.2.
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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Act repealed (1.12.2001) by The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Consequential Amendments and Repeals) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3649), arts. 1, 3(1)(c) (with savings in art. 292)