Legislation – Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022
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PART 2Prevention, investigation and prosecution of crime
CHAPTER 1Functions relating to serious violence
Exercise of functions
I1I217Supply of information to local policing bodies
1
A local policing body may, for the purposes of enabling or assisting it to exercise its functions under section 14 in relation to an area, request any person listed in subsection (2) to supply it with such information as may be specified in the request.
2
Those persons are—
a
a specified authority for that area;
b
an educational authority for that area;
c
a prison authority for that area;
d
a youth custody authority for that area.
3
Information requested under subsection (1) must be information that is held by the person to whom the request is made and that relates to—
a
the person to whom the request was made,
b
a function of the person to whom the request was made, or
c
a person in respect of whom a function is exercisable by the person requested to supply the information.
4
5
A disclosure of information required by subsection (4) does not breach—
a
any obligation of confidence owed by the person making the disclosure, or
b
any other restriction on the disclosure of information (however imposed).
6
But subsection (4) does not require—
a
the disclosure of patient information,
b
the disclosure of personal information by a specified authority which is a health or social care authority,
c
a disclosure of information that would contravene the data protection legislation (but in determining whether a disclosure would do so, the duty imposed by that subsection is to be taken into account), or
d
a disclosure of information that is prohibited by any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
7
Information supplied to a local policing body under this section may be used by the body only for the purpose of enabling or assisting it to exercise its functions under section 14.