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Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980

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125CB Use of information supplied under disclosure order

(1) Information supplied to a person under a disclosure order, or under this subsection, may be supplied by him to— (a) the applicant for the order or any other person entitled to execute the warrant concerned; (b) any employee of a body or person who, for the purposes of section 125B above, is an approved enforcement agency in relation to the warrant; (c) any ... person appointed under section 2(1) of the Courts Act 2003. (2) A person who intentionally or recklessly— (a) discloses information supplied under a disclosure order otherwise than as permitted by subsection (1) above, or (b) uses information so supplied otherwise than for the purpose of facilitating the execution of the warrant concerned, commits an offence. (3) But it is not an offence under subsection (2) above— (a) to disclose any information in accordance with any enactment or order of a court or for the purposes of any proceedings before a court; or (b) to disclose any information which has previously been lawfully disclosed to the public. (4) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) above is liable— (a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine. (5) In this section “disclosure order” has the meaning given by section 125CA(3) above.

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125CB Use of information supplied under disclosure order

(1) Information supplied to a person under a disclosure order, or under this subsection, may be supplied by him to— (a) the applicant for the order or any other person entitled to execute the warrant concerned; (b) any employee of a body or person who, for the purposes of section 125B above, is an approved enforcement agency in relation to the warrant; (c) any ... person appointed under section 2(1) of the Courts Act 2003. (2) A person who intentionally or recklessly— (a) discloses information supplied under a disclosure order otherwise than as permitted by subsection (1) above, or (b) uses information so supplied otherwise than for the purpose of facilitating the execution of the warrant concerned, commits an offence. (3) But it is not an offence under subsection (2) above— (a) to disclose any information in accordance with any enactment or order of a court or for the purposes of any proceedings before a court; or (b) to disclose any information which has previously been lawfully disclosed to the public. (4) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (2) above is liable— (a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine. (5) In this section “disclosure order” has the meaning given by section 125CA(3) above.

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