(1) The partners of a panel must, so far as appropriate and reasonably practicable, act in co-operation with -

(a) the panel in the carrying out of its functions;

(b) the police and local authorities in the carrying out of their functions in connection with section 36.

(2) The partners of a panel are the persons and bodies specified in Schedule 7.

(3) The duty of a partner of a panel to act in co-operation with the panel -

(a) includes the giving of information (subject to subsection (4));

(b) extends only so far as the co-operation is compatible with the exercise of the partner’s functions under any other enactment or rule of law.

(4) Nothing in this section requires or authorises the making of -

(a) a disclosure that would contravene the data protection legislation;

(b) a disclosure of any sensitive information.