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Statutory Instruments

2014 No. 1825

Electronic Communications

The Communications Act 2003 (Disclosure of Information) Order 2014

Made

9th July 2014

Coming into force in accordance with article 1

The Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 393(3)(i) and (4)(c) of the Communications Act 2003(1).

In accordance with section 393(11) of that Act, a draft of this Order was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

Citation, commencement and interpretationI1

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Communications Act 2003 (Disclosure of Information) Order 2014.

(2) This Order comes into force on the day after the day on which it is made.

(3) In this Order “the Act” means the Communications Act 2003 .

Specification as a relevant personI2

2. Each of the following is specified as a relevant person for the purposes of section 393(3) of the Act (general restrictions on disclosure of information)—

(a)the Information Commissioner;

(b)the Financial Conduct Authority; and

(c)the Payment Systems Regulator.

Specification of relevant functionsI3

3.[F1—(1)F1] The following are specified as relevant functions for the purposes of section 393(4) of the Act—

(a)any functions conferred by or under [F2the data protection legislationF2] ;

(b)any functions conferred by the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003(2);

(c)any functions conferred by or under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000(3);

(d)any functions conferred by or under the Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013(4);

(e)any functions conferred by the Payment Services Regulations [F32017F3] ;

(f)any functions conferred by or under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986(5).

[F4 (2) In this article, “ the data protection legislation ” has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act ). F4]

Ed Vaizey

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

9th July 2014

(1)

2003 c.21. Section 393 has been amended, but those amendments are not relevant to this Order.

(3)

2000 c.8. That Act was amended by the Financial Services Act 2012 (c.21) which renamed the Financial Services Authority as the Financial Conduct Authority.

(4)

Part 5 of that Act requires the Financial Conduct Authority to establish the Payment Systems Regulator, and confers duties and powers on the Payment Systems Regulator.

(5)

1986 c.46. Relevant amendments were made by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994(c.40), the Insolvency Act 2000 (c.39), the Enterprise Act 2002 (c.40), the Courts Act 2003 (c.39), the Companies Act 2006 (c.46), the Banking Act 2009 (c.1) and by S.I. 2001/3649, 2004/1941, 2007/2194, 2008/948, 2009/805, 2009/1941, 2012/2404.

Status: There are currently no known outstanding effects for The Communications Act 2003 (Disclosure of Information) Order 2014.
The Communications Act 2003 (Disclosure of Information) Order 2014 (2014/1825)
Version from: 25 May 2018

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in force Provision is in force
in force* In force only for specified purposes (for detail about the purposes see/hover footnote)
not in force Not in force in England (may be in force in other geographies, see footnotes)
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gry bckgrd the in-force status of the provision is complex, check the footnotes
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F1 Art. 3 renumbered as art. 3(1) (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 379(2) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g) this amendment (text renumbered) should be read in conjunction with other related provisions, see the commentary. renumbered
F2 Words in art. 3(1)(a) substituted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 379(3) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g) this amendment (text substituted) should be read in conjunction with other related provisions, see the commentary. substituted
F3 Word in art. 3(e) substituted (13.1.2018) by The Payment Services Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/752), reg. 1(6), Sch. 8 para. 17 (with reg. 3) this amendment (text substituted) should be read in conjunction with other related provisions, see the commentary. substituted
F4 Art. 3(2) inserted (25.5.2018) by Data Protection Act 2018 (c. 12), s. 212(1), Sch. 19 para. 379(4) (with ss. 117, 209, 210); S.I. 2018/625, reg. 2(1)(g) this amendment (text inserted) should be read in conjunction with other related provisions, see the commentary. inserted
I1 Art. 1 in force at 10.7.2014, see art. 1(2)
I2 Art. 2 in force at 10.7.2014, see art. 1(2)
I3 Art. 3 in force at 10.7.2014, see art. 1(2)
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the Act art. 1. def_1335a589af
the data protection legislation art. 3. def_f8e52d1607

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