Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 2007 c. 8 |
| Year | 2007 |
(1) The Secretary of State and the Northern Ireland department may, at the request of a relevant person, supply a relevant person with social security information for use (by the person to whom it is supplied or by another relevant person) in connection with switchover help functions.(2) The Secretary of State may, at the request of a relevant person, supply a relevant person with war pensions information for use (by the person to whom it is supplied or by another relevant person) in connection with switchover help functions.(3) A local authority or, in Northern Ireland, a Health and Social Services Board may, at the request of a relevant person, supply a relevant person with visual impairment information for use (by the person to whom it is supplied or by another relevant person) in connection with switchover help functions.the BBC;the BBC,the Secretary of State, ora nominee of the BBC or the Secretary of State,any person who is engaged by the BBC, the Secretary of State or any company falling within paragraph (b) to provide any service connected with switchover help functions, to carry out a switchover help function or to carry out any function connected with switchover help functions.the identification of persons who may be eligible for help under a switchover help scheme;making contact with such persons with a view to the provision of such help; andthe establishment of any person's entitlement to such help.(1) This section applies for the purposes of section 1.in relation to the Secretary of State, information of a prescribed description held by him (or on his behalf) and obtained as a result of, or for the purpose of, the exercise of functions of his in relation to social security;in relation to the Northern Ireland department, information of a prescribed description held by the department (or on its behalf) and obtained as a result of, or for the purpose of, the exercise of the functions of the department in relation to social security.(3) “War pensions information” means information of a prescribed description held by the Secretary of State (or on his behalf) and obtained as a result of, or for the purpose of, the exercise of functions of his relating to war pensions, as defined by section 25(4) of the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24) .are registered as blind or partially sighted in a register maintained by or on behalf of a local authority in England or Wales under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948 (c. 29) (welfare services) ,have been certified as blind or partially sighted in Scotland and in consequence are registered as blind or partially sighted in a register maintained by or on behalf of a local authority in Scotland, orhave been certified as blind in Northern Ireland and in consequence are registered as blind in a register maintained by or on behalf of a Health and Social Services Board in Northern Ireland.(5) In this section “prescribed” means prescribed by order made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument.(6) A statutory instrument containing an order under this section is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.(7) An order under this section may make different provision in relation to different cases.(1) A relevant person must not disclose without lawful authority any information supplied to him or another relevant person under section 1.who is or who has been employed by a relevant person,in the provision of services to a relevant person in connection with the carrying out of a switchover help function, orto carry out any switchover help function, or to carry out any function in connection with the carrying out of a switchover help function, orwho is or who has been employed by, or who is or who has been engaged in the provision of services to, or to carry out a function for, a person mentioned in paragraph (b) ,(3) A person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2) commits an offence.to disclose information in the form of a summary or collection of information so framed as not to enable information supplied under section 1 relating to any particular person to be ascertained from it; orto disclose information which has previously been disclosed to the public with lawful authority.that he was making the disclosure in question with lawful authority, orthat the information in
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