# Legal Services Act 2007, Section 167: Restricted information

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(1) Except as provided by section 168, restricted information must not be disclosed—
(a) by a restricted person, or
(b) by any person who receives the information directly or indirectly from a restricted person.
(2) In this section and section 168—
“restricted information” means information (other than excluded information) which is obtained by the Board in the exercise of its functions;
“restricted person” means—
(a)the Board (including the Board in its capacity as an approved regulator or a licensing authority),
(b)a person who exercises functions delegated under paragraph 23 of Schedule 1 or section 73 or by virtue of section 64(2)(k).
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) “excluded information” means—
(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;
(b) information which at the time of the disclosure is or has already been made available to the public from other sources;
(c) information which was obtained more than 70 years before the date of the disclosure.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/29/section/167 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/legal-services-act-2007/section-167
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