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Article 46 Disclosure of confidential information

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A person who—

(a)

enters a factory, workshop or workplace under the provisions of article 20 (protective works to buildings, roads and apparatus of a statutory undertaker) or article 21 (power to survey and investigate land); and

(b)

discloses to any person any information obtained as a result of that entry and relating to any manufacturing process or trade secret,

is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale unless the disclosure is made in the course of that person’s performance of a duty in connection with the purposes for which the person was authorised to enter the land.