{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-supply-of-information-regulations-2000/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-supply-of-information-regulations-2000/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/2956",
  "legislation_title": "The Utilities Act 2000 (Supply of Information) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/utilities-act-2000-supply-of-information-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Information whose disclosure would be affected by the application of other legislation",
  "text": "(1) The Authority may refuse to supply under section 24 of the Act any information not falling within regulation 4(1) which—\n(a) was disclosed to the Authority in circumstances in which that disclosure would have been prohibited by or under an enactment imposing general restrictions on the disclosure of information but for an exemption from those restrictions naming the Authority as a person to whom information may be disclosed whether generally or for specified purposes or in specified circumstances; or\n(b) was obtained by the Authority in the exercise of functions which it may exercise concurrently with the Director General of Fair Trading under sections 44, 50, 52, 53, 56A to 56G, 86 and 88 of the Fair Trading Act 1973 or under Part I of the Competition Act 1998.\n(2) The Authority, a licence holder or the Council may refuse to supply under section 24 or 26 of the Act any information—\n(a) whose disclosure would be prohibited by or under any enactment other than the Gas Act 1986 or the Electricity Act 1989; or\n(b) whose disclosure is incompatible with any Community obligation.\n(3) Subject to paragraph (4), the Authority, a licence holder or the Council may refuse to supply under section 24 or 26 of the Act any information which constitutes personal data within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998 and where—\n(a) in a case where the information falls within any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of the definition of “data” in that section, the disclosure of the information to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles or section 10 of that Act (right to prevent processing likely to cause damage or distress); or\n(b) in any other case, the disclosure of the information to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles if the exemptions in section 33A(1) of the Data Protection Act 1998 (which relate to manual data held by public authorities) were disregarded.\n(4) A licence holder may not, by virtue of paragraph (3), refuse to supply information which relates to a person who has made a complaint to which section 32 of the Gas Act 1986 or section 46 of the Electricity Act 1989 applies and which is being investigated by the Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1973 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1998 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1998 c. 29."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/1398",
      "affecting_title": "The Enterprise Act 2002 (Consequential and Supplemental Provisions) Order 2003"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/2956/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:11:12.841178+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."
}