40 Personal information
Freedom of Information Act 2000 (2000 c 36) | Legislation

40  Personal information

(1)     Any information to which a request for information relates is exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject.

(2)     Any information to which a request for information relates is also exempt information if—

(a)     it constitutes personal data which [does] not fall within subsection (1), and

(b)     [the first, second or third] condition below is satisfied.

[(3A)     The first condition is that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than under this Act—

(a)     would contravene any of the data protection principles, or

(b)     would do so if the exemptions in section 24(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018 (manual unstructured data held by public authorities) were disregarded.

(3B)     The second condition is that the disclosure of the information to a member of the public otherwise than under this Act would contravene Article 21 of

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