{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracting-out-of-investment-functions-order-1996/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracting-out-of-investment-functions-order-1996/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/1883",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Authorities (Contracting Out of Investment Functions) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-authorities-contracting-out-of-investment-functions-order-1996",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Information",
  "text": "In relation to any function which a contractor is authorised to exercise by the authority, the contractor —\n(a) shall take all necessary steps to ensure that all information obtained, whether from the authority or otherwise, in the course of exercising the function in question is held, at all times, in accordance with all relevant enactments and duties at common law regarding the keeping and disclosure of information;\n(b) subject to the provisions of Schedule 15 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (restrictions on disclosure of information), shall not use any such information for any purpose apart from the purpose of lawfully exercising that function on behalf of the authority;\n(c) shall provide the authority at least once every three months with a report setting out the action he has taken in the exercise of that function; and\n(d) shall immediately comply with any written request made by the authority for the supply of any additional information, including copies of any records made or held by the contractor, relating to the exercise of that function.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Arts. 7-13 applied (with modifications) (20.1.2006) by The Transport for London (Best Value) (Contracting Out of Investment and Highway Functions) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/91), arts. 1, 2(1)(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 12 in force at 18.7.1996, see art. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1994 c. 40."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/1883/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:38:41.237349+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."
}