Except as provided by section 168, 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 168—
"restricted information" means information (other than excluded information) which is obtained by the Board in the exercise of its functions;
"restricted person" means—
(a)the Board (including the Board in its capacity as an approved regulator or a licensing authority),
(b)a person who exercises functions delegated under paragraph 23 of Schedule 1 or section 73 or by virtue of section 64(2)(k).
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.