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Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983
Prohibition on unauthorised disclosure of information.
37.—(1) A person shall not disclose confidential information obtained by him while performing duties as a director or member of staff of, or an adviser or consultant to, the postal company or the telecommunications company or as a postmaster unless he is duly authorised to do so.
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence.
(3) In this section—
“confidential” means that which is expressed to be confidential either as regards particular information or as regards information of a particular class or description;
“duly authorised” means authorised by the company or by some person authorised in that behalf by the company.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C34
Person holding record under section excluded from requirement to refuse an FOI request (14.10.2014) by Freedom of Information Act 2014 (30/2014), s. 41(1)(a) and sch. 3 part 1, commenced on enactment.
Enactments relating to non-disclosure of records.
41.—(1) A head shall refuse to grant an FOI request if—
(a) the disclosure of the record concerned is prohibited by law of the European Union or any enactment (other than a provision specified in column (3) of Part 1 or 2 of Schedule 3 of an enactment specified in that Schedule), or
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SCHEDULE 3
Enactments Excluded from Application of Section 41
PART I
Statutes
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No. 24 of 1983 |
Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983 |
Section 37. |
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C35
Application of section restricted in so far as it applies to the company (15.07.1999) by Postal and Telecommunications Services (Amendment) Act 1999 (5/1999), s. 3(2) and sch. 2, S.I. No. 220 of 1999, art. 3.
Repeals
3.— ...
(2) The enactments mentioned in column (2) of the Second Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in column (3) of that Schedule in so far as they apply to the company.
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SECOND SCHEDULE
Section 3(2).
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Short Title of Act |
Extent of Repeal |
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No. 24 of 1983. |
Postal and Telecommunications Services Act, 1983. |
Section 8(2). Section 10(2). Section 11. Section 19(3). Section 22. Section 24. Section 27. Section 28. Section 30. Section 32. Section 33. Section 37. Section 38. Section 39(3). Section 46(1), (2), (3), (6), (7), (9) and (11). Section 51. |
Editorial Notes:
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Previous affecting provision: application of section not restricted (21.04.1998) by Freedom of Information Act 1997 (13/1997), s. 32(1)(a) and sch. 3 part 1, commenced as pers. 1(2); repealed (14.10.2014) by Freedom of Information Act 2014 (30/2014), s. 5 and sch. 4, commenced as per s.1(2).