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ACT
Unit: PAG1
Rev RA Proof, 29.11.2000
Freedom of Information Act 2000
Part VIII
(d) provide for sections 47 and 48 to apply in relation to such a code
with such modifications as may be specified,
(e) provide for any of the provisions of Parts IV and V to apply, with
such modifications as may be specified in the regulations, in
relation to compliance with any requirement of the
regulations, and
(f) contain such transitional or consequential provision (including
provision modifying any enactment) as the Secretary of State
considers appropriate.
(5) This section has effect subject to section 80.
Power to amend
or repeal
enactments
prohibiting
disclosure of
information.
75.—(1) If, with respect to any enactment which prohibits the
disclosure of information held by a public authority, it appears to the
Secretary of State that by virtue of section 44(1)(a) the enactment is
capable of preventing the disclosure of information under section 1, he
may by order repeal or amend the enactment for the purpose of removing
or relaxing the prohibition.
(2) In subsection (1)—
“enactment” means—
(a) any enactment contained in an Act passed before or in
the same Session as this Act, or
(b) any enactment contained in Northern Ireland
legislation or subordinate legislation passed or made before
the passing of this Act;
“information” includes unrecorded information.
(3) An order under this section may do all or any of the following—
(a) make such modifications of enactments as, in the opinion of the
Secretary of State, are consequential upon, or incidental to, the
amendment or repeal of the enactment containing the
prohibition;
(b) contain such transitional provisions and savings as appear to the
Secretary of State to be appropriate;
(c) make different provision for different cases.
Disclosure of
information
between
Commissioner
and ombudsmen.
1998 c. 29.
76.—(1) The Commissioner may disclose to a person specified in the
first column of the Table below any information obtained by, or furnished
to, the Commissioner under or for the purposes of this Act or the Data
Protection Act 1998 if it appears to the Commissioner that the
information relates to a matter which could be the subject of an
investigation by that person under the enactment specified in relation to
that person in the second column of that Table.
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