{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-of-trade-act-1947/section-9A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-of-trade-act-1947/section-9A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/10-11/39",
  "legislation_title": "Statistics of Trade Act 1947",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/statistics-of-trade-act-1947",
  "path": "section/9A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9A",
  "heading": "Exceptions from section 9.",
  "text": "(1) Nothing in section nine of this Act shall prevent or penalise the disclosure by the Secretary of State of information obtained under this Act—\n(a) to the Environment Agency, the Natural Resources Body for Wales or the Scottish Environment Protection Agency; or\n(b) to an officer of any of those bodies authorised by that body to receive the information.\n(2) A person to whom information is disclosed in pursuance of the last foregoing subsection shall not use the information for any purpose other than the purposes of any functions of the body in question.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 9A inserted (1.2.1996) by Environment Act 1995 (c. 25), ss. 120(1), 125(3), Sch. 22 para. 2 (with ss. 7(6), 115, 117); S.I. 1996/186, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 9A(1)(a) inserted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(a) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 9A(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(2)(b) (with Sch. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 9A(2) substituted (1.4.2013) by The Natural Resources Body for Wales (Functions) Order 2013 (No. 755), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(3) (with Sch. 7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/10-11/39/section/9A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:23:54.620640+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."
}