Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1991/56/section/17Q
Timestamp: 2019-12-15 22:08:26
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art 3', 'art 3', 'art. 3', 'art. 6', 'art. 3', 'art. 4']

Section 17Q
Changes over time for: Section 17Q
Changes and effects yet to be applied to Section 17Q:
s. 17Q applied (with modifications) by S.I. 2013/1582 Sch. 1 para. 5(7)
s. 17Q(2)-(4) words substituted by 2013 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 66(2)
s. 17Q(6) word inserted by S.I. 2014/892 Sch. 1 para. 79(2)
s. 17Q(6) word substituted by 2013 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 66(2)
s. 17Q(7)(b) substituted by S.I. 2014/892 Sch. 1 para. 79(4)
s. 17Q(8) word substituted by 2013 c. 24 Sch. 6 para. 66(2)
[F117QSection 17P: supplementaryU.K.
(1)For the purposes of the law relating to defamation, absolute privilege attaches to any notice under subsection (4)(a), (6) or (8) of section 17P above.
(2)In giving any notice under subsection (4)(a) or (6) of section 17P above, or publishing any notice under subsection (8) of that section, the Commission must have regard to the following considerations before disclosing any information.
(3)The first consideration is the need to exclude from disclosure (so far as practicable) any information whose disclosure the Commission thinks is contrary to the public interest.
(4)The second consideration is the need to exclude from disclosure (so far as practicable)—
(5)The third consideration is the extent to which the disclosure of the information mentioned in subsection (4)(a) or (b) above is necessary for the purposes of the notice.
(6)The following sections of Part 3 of the Enterprise Act 2002 shall apply, with the modifications mentioned in subsections (7) and (8) below, for the purposes of any investigation by the Commission for the purposes of the exercise of its functions under section 17P above, as they apply for the purposes of any investigation on references under that Part—
(7)Section 110 shall, in its application by virtue of subsection (6) above, have effect as if—
(a)subsection (2) were omitted,
(b)in subsection (4), for the words “the publication of the report of the Commission on the reference concerned” there were substituted the publication by the Commission of a notice under section 17P(8) of the Water Industry Act 1991 in connection with the reference concerned or, if no direction has been given by the Commission under section 17P(1) of that Act in connection with the reference concerned and within the period permitted for that purpose, the latest day on which it was possible to give such a direction within the permitted period; and
(8)Section 111(5)(b) shall, in its application by virtue of subsection (6), have effect as if for sub-paragraph (ii) there were substituted—
(ii)if earlier, the day on which a notice is published by the Commission under section 17P(8) of the Water Industry Act 1991 in connection with the reference concerned or, if no direction is given by the Commission under section 17P(1) of that Act in connection with the reference concerned and within the period permitted for that purpose, the latest day on which such a direction may be given within the permitted period.
(9)Provisions of Part 3 of the Enterprise Act 2002 which have effect for the purposes of sections 109 to 116 of that Act (including, in particular, provisions relating to offences and the making of orders) shall, for the purposes of the application of those sections by virtue of subsection (6) above, have effect in relation to those sections as applied by virtue of that subsection.
(10)Accordingly, corresponding provisions of this Act shall not have effect in relation to those sections as applied by virtue of that subsection.]
F1Pt. 2 Ch. 1A inserted (1.4.2004 for specified provisions and purposes and 1.8.2005 for further specified provisions and purposes and 1.10.2005 for further specified provisions and 1.12.2005 otherwise) by Water Act 2003 (c. 37), ss. 56, 105(3), Sch. 4 para. 2; S.I. 2004/641, art. 3(l), Sch. 1 (with art. 6, Sch. 3); S.I. 2005/968, art. 3(b) (with savings in art. 4, Sch. 1, 2); S.I. 2005/2714, arts. 2(h), 3(a) (with Sch. para. 5)