Part 2: The Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR) Information Section 33: Guidance and protocols relating to information
Subsection (1) provides that the Secretary of State may give guidance to the ICRIR, the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, chief officers of police forces in Great Britain, the Police Ombudsman for Northern Ireland, the Director General of the Independent Office for Police Conduct, The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner, Northern Ireland departments and Scottish ministers about the identification of sensitive information. Subsection (2) provides that recipients of such guidance must have regard to it when identifying information in accordance with Schedule 8.
	The authorities listed include all the policing bodies across the United Kingdom that may be required to assist the ICRIR to make effective use of material provided (as per section 5). For instance, if a relevant policing authority needed to explain a reference on a document on their file system to the ICRIR, the ICRIR could request the relevant Chief Constable provide such assistance and the Chief Constable could not refuse this request.
	The Government does not believe it is necessary to widen this requirement to include the National Crime Agency, as we do not believe they will hold a significant enough amount of potentially relevant material for the ICRIR.
	Subsection (3) provides that the Secretary of State may also give guidance to the ICRIR regarding the exercise of its functions in accordance with section 4(1)(a). Subsection (4) sets out that the ICRIR must have regard to such guidance when exercising the functions to which the guidance relates.
	Subsection (5) provides that an information disclosure protocol may be agreed between the ICRIR and one or more relevant authorities, or persons listed in paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 5. A definition of "information disclosure protocol" is provided at subsection (6). "Relevant authority" has the meaning given in section 60.