Regulation 41 Part 7: supplementaryI1

A disclosure of information under regulation 39 (disclosure of information) or 40 (finance: disclosure to the Treasury) does not breach any restriction on such disclosure imposed by statute or otherwise.

But nothing in those regulations authorises a disclosure that—

Nothing in this Part is to be read as requiring a person who has acted or is acting as counsel or solicitor for any person to disclose any privileged information in their possession in that capacity.

Regulations 39 and 40 do not limit the circumstances in which information may be disclosed apart from those regulations.

Nothing in this Part limits any conditions which may be contained in a Treasury licence.

In this regulation—

• “the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act (terms relating to the processing of personal data))^f2;

• “privileged information” means information with respect to which a claim to legal professional privilege (in Scotland, to confidentiality of communications) could be maintained in legal proceedings.