UK Offence Report

The Provision of Confidential Statistical Informationto the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Restriction on Disclosure) Regulations 1991 (revoked)

UK Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 2779 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
7 December 1991
In force from
1 January 1992
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Miscellaneous

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations implement article 6 of Council Regulation (EURATOM, EEC) No. 1588/90 of 11th June 1990 on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities (“the SOEC”). The Regulations make it an offence for an officer or employee of the SOEC or an individual working under a contract for services with the SOEC on its premises knowingly or recklessly to disclose within Great Britain statistical information which has been provided by a member State to the SOEC in accordance with article 3 of the Council Regulation and which has been declared or classified as confidential by the member State in accordance with its law or national practice. The offence is punishable on summary conviction by a term of imprisonment not exceeding three months, or a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum, or both, or on conviction on indictment by a term of imprisonment not exceeding two years, or a fine, or both.

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