PART 3Further duties to provide information for the Disclosure Act’s purposes

Duty to provide information in response to section 49(2) request

article 9 + 9.—(1) The chief officer of a UK law-enforcement body must, as soon as practicable after receiving it, comply with a request made under section 49(2) of the Disclosure Act (which allows information to be requested for the purpose of determining whether a person is suitable to have access to disclosure information).

(2) A chief officer must not provide information in accordance with this article if the chief officer thinks that disclosing the information would be contrary to the interests of the prevention or detection of crime.