Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 4: Fraud against the public sector Section 57: Further provisions about power in section 56
Subsection (1) provides that the person receiving personal information under section 56 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 broadly are designed to cover situations where it would not be appropriate to adhere to the general rule at subsection (1). Paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) provide exceptions enabling data to be used for the purposes of the prevention or detection of crime, the prevention of anti-social behaviour and for the purposes of criminal investigations or civil or criminal legal proceedings. Paragraph (f) provides additional exceptions to the general rule in subsection (1), designed to cover circumstances where it is envisaged that a public authority in receipt of information under the power at section 56 might need to use personal information to protect the public interest or in the interests of an individual’s well-being, namely preventing serious physical harm to a person, preventing loss of human life, safeguarding vulnerable adults or children, responding to an emergency, 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.
	Subsection (5) provides a definition of "personal information" for the purposes of Chapter 4 and sets out further conditions on the disclosure and use of personal information. Subsection (7) states 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. Subsection (8), however, sets out that information cannot be disclosed under this power if to do so would contravene 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 section 56 does not limit any power to disclose information that exists apart from that section.