The Enterprise Act 2002 (Part 9 Restrictions on Disclosure of Information) (Amendment and Specification) Order 2007
Part 9 of the Enterprise Act 2002 (“the Act”) restricts the disclosure of specified information which relates to the affairs of an individual or any business of an undertaking. Specified information, defined by section 238 of the Act, includes information which comes to a public authority in connection with the exercise of any function it has under an enactment specified in Schedule 14 or subordinate legislation specified for the purposes of section 238(1) by order of the Secretary of State. Section 241(3) of the Act provides that a public authority may disclose specified information which is restricted by Part 9 of the Act to another person, for the purposes of facilitating the exercise of functions the person has including functions under an enactment specified in Schedule 15.