s 151 Restricted information
(1) Except as provided by section 152, restricted information must not be disclosed— (a) by a restricted person, or (b) by any person who receives the information directly or indirectly from a restricted person. (2) In this section and section 152— “ restricted information ” means information (other than excluded information) which is obtained by a restricted person in the course of, or for the purposes of, an investigation into a complaint made under the ombudsman scheme (including information obtained for the purposes of deciding whether to begin such an investigation or in connection with the settlement of a complaint); “ restricted person ” means— the OLC, an ombudsman, or a person who exercises functions delegated under paragraph 22 of Schedule 15. (3) For the purposes of subsection (2) “ excluded information ” means— (a) information which is in the form of a summary or collection of information so framed as not to enable information relating to any particular person to be ascertained from it; (b) information which at the time of the disclosure is or has already been made available to the public from other sources; (c) information which was obtained more than 70 years before the date of the disclosure.