{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023/regulation-78",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023/regulation-78.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/1314",
  "legislation_title": "The Iran (Sanctions) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/iran-sanctions-regulations-2023",
  "path": "regulation/78",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "78",
  "heading": "Part 9: supplementary",
  "text": "(1) A disclosure of information under regulation 76 (disclosure of information) or 77 (finance: disclosure to the Treasury) does not breach any restriction on such disclosure imposed by statute or otherwise.\n(2) But nothing in those regulations authorises a disclosure that—\n(a) contravenes the data protection legislation, or\n(b) is prohibited by any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.\n(3) 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.\n(4) Regulations 76 and 77 do not limit the circumstances in which information may be disclosed apart from those regulations.\n(5) Nothing in this Part limits any conditions which may be contained in a Treasury licence or a trade licence.\n(6) In this regulation—\n“the data protection legislation” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act);\n“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.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 78 in force at 14.12.2023, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2016 c. 25. Amendments have been made most recently by the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018, section 59(4), Schedule 3, paragraph 7; the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019 (c. 3), Schedule 4, paragraph 33; the Crime (Overseas Production Orders) Act 2019 (c. 5), section 16; the Armed Forces Act 2021 (c. 35), section 24(1) and Schedule 5, paragraphs 44 and 45 and Schedule 4, paragraph 2; the Finance (No. 2) Act 2023 (c. 20), section 352; S.I. 2018/378; S.I. 2018/652; S.I. 2018/905; S.I. 2018/1123; S.I. 2019/419; S.I. 2019/742; S.I. 2019/939; S.I. 2020/661; S.I. 2020/360; S.I. 2020/792; S.I. 2023/149 and S.I. 2023/621."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2018 c. 12. There are amendments to this Act that are not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1314/regulation/78",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:37:37.715143+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."
}