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Official Information (Disclosure)

Volume 170: debated on Monday 2 April 1990

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Mr. Richard Shepherd

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department (1) if he will publish a complete list of the statutory provisions bearing upon the disclosure of official information, other than the Official Secrets Act, in order to update the list of provisions published in appendix V of the Franks report (Cmnd. 5104);(2) if he will publish a list of the clauses containing provisions bearing upon the disclosure of official information which appear in Government Bills published to date during the current parliamentary Session.

Mr. John Patten

[holding answer 16 January 1990]: Following is the information requested:

Statutory provisions which create criminal sanctions for the disclosure of certain kinds of information

  • Abortion Act 1967, sections (2)1(c) and (3).
  • Agricultural Statistics Act 1979, sections 3 and 4.
  • Agriculture and Horticulture Act 1964, section 13.
  • Airports Act 1986, section 74.
  • Anatomy Act 1984, section 10(6).
  • Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986, section 24.
  • Atomic Energy Act 1946, section 13.
  • Banking Act 1987, sections 82-87.
  • Biological Standards Act 1975, section 5.
  • Building Societies Act 1986, section 53.
  • Census Act 1920, sections 8(1)(a) and 8(2).
  • Cereals Marketing Act 1965, section 17.
  • Civil Aviation Act 1982, section 23.
  • Civil Defence Act 1948, section 4(4).
  • Clean Air Act 1956, section 26.
  • Coal Act 1938, section 1(3).
  • Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, section 56.
  • Coast Protection Act 1949, section 25.
  • Companies Act 1985, section 449.
  • Company Securities (Insider Dealing) Act 1985, section 2.
  • Competitions Act 1980, section 19.
  • Consumer Credit Act 1974, sections 160(4) and 174(5).
  • Consumer Protection Act 1987, section 38.
  • Control of Pollution Act 1974, section 94.
  • Data Protection Act 1984, sections 15, 19, 20 and schedule
  • 1, paragraph 3.
  • Deep Sea Mining (Temporary Provisions) Act 1981, section 13.
  • Diseases of Fish Act 1983, section 9.
  • Electricity Act 1989, section 57.
  • Employment Agencies Act 1973, section 9(4).
  • Employment and Training Act 1973, section 4(5).
  • Energy Act 1976, schedule 2, paragraph 7.
  • Energy Conservation Act 1981, section 20(8).
  • Estate Agents Act 1979, section 10.
  • European Communities Act 1972, sections 11(2) and 12.
  • Factories Act 1961, section 154.
  • Fair Trading Act 1973, sections 30(3) and 133.
  • Film Levy Finance Act 1981, section 8.
  • Finance Act 1969, section 58(6).
  • Finance Act 1989, section 182(8).
  • Financial Services Act 1986, part VIII.
  • Fire Precautions Act 1971, section 21.
  • Fisheries Act 1981, section 12.
  • Food Act 1984, sections 5(3) and 87(5).
  • Gas Act 1965, schedule 6, paragraph 9.
  • Gas Act 1986, section 42.
  • Harbours Act 1964, section 46.
  • Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, sections 27(4) and 28
  • Highways Act 1980, section 292(4).
  • Industrial Training Act 1982, section 6(2).
  • Insurance Companies Act 1982, section 47a.
  • Iron and Steel Act 1982, section 33.
  • Legal Aid Act 1988, section 38.
  • Local Government Finance Act 1982, section 30.
  • Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980, section 167 and schedule 20, part III.
  • Medicines Act 1968, section 118(2).
  • Merchant Shipping Act 1988, section 52(3).
  • Merchant Shipping (Liner Conferences) Act 1982, section 10(2).
  • National Health Service Act 1977, paras 5–7 of schedule 11.
  • Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act 1963, section 59.
  • Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984, section 98.
  • Population (Statistics) Act 1938, section 4(2).
  • Prices Act 1974, schedule, paragraph 12.
  • Public Health Act 1961, section 68.
  • Public Health (Control of Diseases) Act 1984, section 62(3).
  • Race Relations Act 1976, section 52.
  • Radioactive Substances Act 1948, section 7.
  • Radioactive Substances Act 1960, section 13(3).
  • Rahabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, section 9.
  • Rent (Agriculture) Act 1976, section 30(4).
  • Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976, section 41.
  • Rivers (Prevention of Pollution) Act 1961, section 12.
  • Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984, section 43.
  • Sea Fish Industry Act 1970, section 14(2).
  • Sex Discrimination Act 1975, section 61.
  • Social Security Act 1989, section 19 and schedule 2.
  • Statistics of Trade Act 1947, section 9.
  • Telecommunications Act 1984, section 101.
  • Town and Country Planning Act 1971, section 281(3).
  • Trade Descriptions Act 1968, section 28.
  • Transport Act 1968, section 87.
  • Value Added Tax Act 1983, section 44.
  • Water Act 1989, section 174.
  • Weights and Measures Act 1985, section 64 and 79(7).
  • Wireless Telegraphy Act 1949, sections 5, (6)(ii) and 15(4)(c).

Provisions in Government Bills published in Session 1989–90 to date, which create offences of disclosure of certain kinds of information

  • Food Safety Bill, clause 33(7).
  • Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, clause 37(5).