Part 5: The Information Commissioner Section 131: Disclosure of information to the Commissioner
This section makes clear that a person is not precluded by any other legislation from disclosing to the Commissioner information needed by the Commissioner in relation to the Commissioner’s functions. The Commissioner has functions under the data protection legislation (as defined in section 3(9)) and also other functions which have been conferred by domestic legislation. For example, the Commissioner has regulatory functions under PECR, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3391), the INSPIRE Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3157), the Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1415), the 2000 Act, the Electronic Identification and Trust Services for Electronic Transactions Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/696), and Regulation (EU) 910/2014 on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market.
	Subsection (2) clarifies that nothing in this section authorises the making of a disclosure which is prohibited by any of Parts 1 to 7 or Chapter 1 of Part 9 of the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.