{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/section-167",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/section-167.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2007/29",
  "legislation_title": "Legal Services Act 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007",
  "path": "section/167",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "167",
  "heading": "Restricted information",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided by section 168, restricted information must not be disclosed—\n(a) by a restricted person, or\n(b) by any person who receives the information directly or indirectly from a restricted person.\n(2) In this section and section 168—\n“restricted information” means information (other than excluded information) which is obtained by the Board in the exercise of its functions;\n“restricted person” means—\n(a)the Board (including the Board in its capacity as an approved regulator or a licensing authority),\n(b)a person who exercises functions delegated under paragraph 23 of Schedule 1 or section 73 or by virtue of section 64(2)(k).\n(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) “excluded information” means—\n(a) information which is in the form of a summary or collection of information so framed as not to enable information relating to any particular person to be ascertained from it;\n(b) information which at the time of the disclosure is or has already been made available to the public from other sources;\n(c) information which was obtained more than 70 years before the date of the disclosure.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 167 wholly in force at 1.1.2010 see s. 211 and S.I. 2009/3250, art. 2(e) (subject to art. 3(2) (as amended (30.9.2011) by S.I. 2011/2196, arts. 1(2), 5) and with art. 9)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/29/section/167",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:12:22.589914+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."
}