Section 124(5)

In section 109 (offences in connection with information notices)— in subsection (2)(b), for “all reasonable steps” substitute “all of the steps that it was reasonable, and reasonably practicable, to take”; after subsection (6) insert— A person who is given an information notice under section 101(C1) commits an offence if— the person deletes or alters, or causes or permits the deletion or alteration of, any information required by the notice to be retained, and the person’s intention was to prevent the information being available, or (as the case may be) to prevent it being available in unaltered form, for the purposes of any official investigation into the death of the child to whom the notice relates. For the purposes of subsection (6A) information has been deleted if it is irrecoverable (however that occurred).

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04