Access to Justice Act 1999
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Change 1
94 Disclosure of information for enforcing warrants.
In the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, after section 125B (inserted by section 93(2) above) insert— Disclosure of information for enforcing warrants. 125C (1) Basic personal information held by a relevant public authority may, on the application of a justices’ chief executive, be supplied by the authority to him (or to a justices’ clerk appointed by, or member of the staff of, his magistrates’ courts committee who is specified in the application) for the purpose of facilitating the enforcement of a section 125A(1) warrant which is so specified. (2) In this section— “basic personal information” means a person’s name, date of birth or national insurance number or the address (or any of the addresses) of a person; “relevant public authority” means a Minister of the Crown, government department, local authority or chief officer of police specified in an order made by the Lord Chancellor; and “a section 125A(1) warrant” means a warrant to which section 125A(1) above applies and which has been issued by a justice of the peace to whom the justices’ chief executive making the application is chief executive. (3) Information supplied to any person under subsection (1) above, or this subsection, for the purpose of facilitating the enforcement of a section 125A(1) warrant may be supplied by him for that purpose to— (a) any person entitled to execute the warrant; (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; or (c) any person who is the justices’ chief executive, a justices’ clerk or a member of the staff of the magistrates’ courts committee whose justices’ chief executive made the application for the information. (4) A person who intentionally or recklessly— (a) discloses information supplied to him under this section otherwise than as permitted by subsection (3) above; or (b) uses information so supplied otherwise than for the purpose of facilitating the enforcement of the section 125A(1) warrant concerned, commits an offence. (5) But it is not an offence under subsection (4) 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. (6) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) above is liable— (a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine. (7) The power to make orders conferred by subsection (2) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
94 Disclosure of information for enforcing warrants.
In the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980, after section 125B (inserted by section 93(2) above) insert— Disclosure of information for enforcing warrants. 125C (1) Basic personal information held by a relevant public authority may, on the application of a justices’ chief executive, be supplied by the authority to him (or to a justices’ clerk appointed by, or member of the staff of, his magistrates’ courts committee who is specified in the application) for the purpose of facilitating the enforcement of a section 125A(1) warrant which is so specified. (2) In this section— “basic personal information” means a person’s name, date of birth or national insurance number or the address (or any of the addresses) of a person; “relevant public authority” means a Minister of the Crown, government department, local authority or chief officer of police specified in an order made by the Lord Chancellor; and “a section 125A(1) warrant” means a warrant to which section 125A(1) above applies and which has been issued by a justice of the peace to whom the justices’ chief executive making the application is chief executive. (3) Information supplied to any person under subsection (1) above, or this subsection, for the purpose of facilitating the enforcement of a section 125A(1) warrant may be supplied by him for that purpose to— (a) any person entitled to execute the warrant; (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; or (c) any person who is the justices’ chief executive, a justices’ clerk or a member of the staff of the magistrates’ courts committee whose justices’ chief executive made the application for the information. (4) A person who intentionally or recklessly— (a) discloses information supplied to him under this section otherwise than as permitted by subsection (3) above; or (b) uses information so supplied otherwise than for the purpose of facilitating the enforcement of the section 125A(1) warrant concerned, commits an offence. (5) But it is not an offence under subsection (4) 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. (6) A person guilty of an offence under subsection (4) above is liable— (a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum; or (b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine. (7) The power to make orders conferred by subsection (2) above shall be exercisable by statutory instrument which shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
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