Schedule 12: OFCOM’s powers of entry, inspection and audit Disclosure of information Section 114: Co-operation and disclosure of information: overseas regulators
This section grants OFCOM a power for collaboration and information sharing with an overseas regulator, including by disclosing online safety information in order to facilitate an overseas regulator exercising their online safety functions, or to cooperate with any related criminal investigations or proceedings. An overseas regulator is a person in a country outside the United Kingdom which exercises functions corresponding to OFCOM’s online safety functions and the power only applies in relation to an overseas regulator specified in regulations made by the Secretary of State.
	Under subsection (3), unless an overseas regulator has OFCOM’s consent or is acting in accordance with an order of a court or tribunal, they cannot use the information disclosed under this power for another purpose, or disclose it further.
	Subsection (4) provides that disclosure under this power does not breach any obligation of confidence owed by the person making the disclosure, or any other restriction on such disclosure, other than the exceptions specified in subsection (5).
	Subsection (6) allows the Secretary of State to give a direction prohibiting the disclosure of information under this power for the purposes of overseas proceedings or overseas proceedings of any description specified in that direction.