Part 5: Digital Government Chapter 3: Debt owed to the public sector Section 49: Further provisions about power in section 48
Subsection (1) provides that the person receiving personal information under section 48 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) 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, and for the purposes of criminal investigations and civil or criminal legal proceedings. Paragraphs (f) and (g) set out additional exceptions to the general rule in subsection (1), enabling information to be used for the purposes of protecting vulnerable adults or children, 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 3 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 Chapter 3, and so existing restrictions on disclosure and offences continue to apply in other circumstances. It is, however, expressly set out in subsections (8) and (9) that information cannot be disclosed under this power 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 section 48 does not limit any power to disclose information that exists apart from that section.