Part 5: Miscellaneous Chapter 1: Competition in connection with motor fuel Section 317: Information sharing
This section provides that the restrictions on the disclosure of information contained in Part 9 of the Enterprise Act 2002 apply to the information that comes to the CMA in connection with the exercise of its functions under the Chapter of Part 5 of this Act to be formed by sections 311 to 318. This Chapter 1 of Part 5 of the Act is added to the list of Specified Functions set out in Schedule 14 to the Enterprise Act 2002. This places any information obtained by the CMA through the exercise of any statutory function under this Chapter in scope of the general restriction on disclosure set out at section 237 of the Enterprise Act 2002. It is a criminal offence under section 245 of the Enterprise Act 2002 to disclose or use information to which section 237 applies unless that disclosure or use is permitted by Part 9 of the Enterprise Act 2002.