The Enterprise Act 2002 (Part 9 Restrictions on Disclosure of Information) (Specification) Order 2018

Part 9 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (“the Act”) restricts the disclosure of “specified information” which relates to the affairs of an individual or any business of an undertaking. Specified information is information which comes to a public authority in connection with the exercise of its functions under certain Parts of the Act or under certain other specified legislation (see section 238 of the Act). Section 241(3) of the Act provides that a public authority may disclose specified information to any other person for the purpose of facilitating the exercise of functions that person has under or by virtue of the Act, an enactment specified in Schedule 15, or any subordinate legislation specified for the purposes of section 241(3)(c).