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The Secretary of State is empowered to prescribe by statutory instrument the form and manner in which a disclosure under the provisions described in A7.104–A7.106 or authorised disclosures (see A7.103) must be made. The form for the National Crime Agency (but not any form prescribed for making a disclosure to an money laundering reporting officer (MLRO)) can include a request to the discloser to provide additional information, but only if the information is specified or described in the form and it was not provided in the disclosure. If he does so, a disclosure made in pursuance of such a request (ie voluntarily) is protected from giving rise to a breach of any restriction on the disclosure of information (however imposed) in the same way as a disclosure pursuant to the statutory obligation to disclose. The form must state that there is no obligation to comply with the request and explain this protection for a person who complies with the request¹.

A person commits an offence if he makes a disclosure under the provisions