Except as provided by section 152, restricted information must not be disclosed—
by a restricted person, or
by any person who receives the information directly or indirectly from a restricted person.
In this section and section 152—
"restricted information" means information (other than excluded information) which is obtained by a restricted person in the course of, or for the purposes of, an investigation into a complaint made under the ombudsman scheme (including information obtained for the purposes of deciding whether to begin such an investigation or in connection with the settlement of a complaint);
"restricted person" means—
(a)the OLC,
(b)an ombudsman, or
(c)a person who exercises functions delegated under paragraph 22 of Schedule 15.
For the purposes of subsection (2) "excluded information" means—
information 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;
information which at the time of the disclosure is or has already been made available to the public from other sources;
information which was obtained more than 70 years before the date of the disclosure.