Official Information (Disclosure)

HC Deb 02 April 1990 vol 170 cc439-40W

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).