Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 1: Public Service Delivery Section 40: Further provisions about disclosures under any of sections 35 to 39
This section provides that the person receiving personal information under sections 35 to 39 can only use it for the purpose for which it was disclosed, unless one of the exceptions set out in subsection (2) is engaged. These exceptions are broadly designed to cover situations where it would not be appropriate to adhere to the general rule at subsection (1). For example:
	paragraphs (c), (d), and (e) enable personal information received under the power to be used for the purposes of the prevention or detection of crime, the prevention of anti-social behaviour criminal investigations, and civil or criminal legal proceedings;
	paragraph (f) provides exemptions permitting personal information to be used to prevent serious physical harm to a person or loss of human life, and to protect vulnerable adults or children, responding to emergencies, or protecting national security.
	The exceptions do not apply to information disclosed by the Revenue and Customs unless the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs have provided consent.
	Subsections (5) and (6) also provide a definition of personal information for the purpose of Chapter 1.
	Subsection (7) provides that information disclosed under this power does not constitute a breach of any obligation of confidence or any other restriction on disclosing the information, however imposed. The statutory override applies to a disclosure between specified persons under the powers in this Chapter, and so existing restrictions on disclosure and offences continue to apply in other circumstances. However, the section expressly provides that information cannot be disclosed under these powers if to do so would breach the Data Protection Act 1998 or would be prohibited by any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016 (or, until such time as those provisions are in force, Part 1 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000).
	Subsection (10) provides that sections 35 to 39 do not limit any power to disclose that exists apart from those sections.