Chapter 3: Enforcement Section 48: Disclosure of information
This Section allows the Secretary of State to disclose to a person any information obtained in connection with the Secretary of State’s enforcement functions, where the disclosure made is for a purpose connected with an enforcement function of the Secretary of State. Subsection (2) provides that a person may disclose any information to the Secretary of State if it is for the purposes of enabling or assisting the Secretary of State to exercise any enforcement function.
	As per subsection (3), this is done without breaching any restriction on the disclosure of information imposed on the person making the disclosure. However, subsections (4) and (5) provide that any action taken under this Section must not contravene data protection legislation or any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.
	Subsection (7) inserts Part 1 of the Product Security and Telecommunications Act 2022 into Schedule 14 of the Enterprise Act 2002 to empower the Secretary of State to disclose information to others (e.g. other regulators) so that they can carry out their functions pursuant to any act listed in Schedule 15 to the 2002 Act, or any subordinate legislation as may be specified for the purposes of section 241(3) of the 2002 Act.