`PENSIONS ACT 1995

An Act to amend the law about pensions and for connected purposes.

Part I
Occupational pensions
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Disclosure of information: the Authority

104. - Restricted information.  

(1) Except as provided by sections 106 to 108, restricted information must not be disclosed by the Authority or by any person who receives the information directly or indirectly from them, except with the consent of the person to whom it relates and (if different) the person from whom the Authority obtained it.
(2) For the purposes of this section and sections 105 to 108, "restricted information" means any information obtained by the Authority in exercise of their functions which relates to the business or other affairs of any person, except for information-

(a) which at the time of the disclosure is or has already been made available to the public from other sources, or
(b) which is in the form of a summary or collection of information so framed as not to enable information relating to any particular person to be ascertained from it.

(3) Any person who discloses information in contravention of this section is guilty of an offence and liable-

(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, and
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or imprisonment, or both.