Section 17 — General provisions about disclosure of non-food product safety information

(1) Nothing in section 14 or 15 limits the circumstances in which information may be disclosed under any other enactment or rule of law.

(2) A disclosure under section 14 or 15 does not breach—

(a) any obligation of confidence owed by the relevant authority, or

(b) any other restriction on the disclosure of information (however imposed).

(3) Nothing in this section, or in section 14 or 15, authorises a disclosure of information if the disclosure would contravene the data protection legislation (but in determining whether a disclosure would do so, the powers conferred by sections 14(2) and 15(2) are to be taken into account).