Part 2: Prevention, investigation and prosecution of crime Chapter 1: Functions relating to serious violence Section 16: Disclosure of information
Subsections (1) and (2) create an information sharing gateway, to permit the disclosure to a specified authority of information held by specified authorities, local policing bodies and educational, prison or youth custody authorities, this does not authorise the disclosure of patient information or the disclosure of personal information by a health or social care authority. Such disclosures would be made to allow the specified authority receiving any such information to exercise its functions under Chapter 1 of Part 2. This would be a permissive gateway. It would permit but would not require the sharing of information.
	Subsections (3) to (4) make further provision about the disclosure of information under this Section. They provide that a disclosure of information under this section may be made notwithstanding any obligation of confidence or any other restriction on the disclosure of the information, save that disclosure would not be permitted if the information disclosed were patient information or personal information disclosed by a specified authority which is a health or social care authority, nor would a disclosure be permitted if it would contravene the data protection legislation or the prohibitions on disclosure provided for in any Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
	Subsections (5) and (6) disapplies any conditions or limitations on the disclosure of information that would apply if the disclosure was one that could be made under an information sharing gateway provided for in regulations made under section 6(2) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 or in section 115 of that Act as well as one that could be made under this Section.
	Subsection (7) provides that this information sharing gateway does not otherwise affect any existing power to disclose information.