Section 289 - Disclosure of certificates
819.This section empowers the appropriate national authority to make regulations about the disclosure of sustainability and interim certificates, statements of non-assessment, any information derived from such documents, and any information collected by an authorised assessor in preparing a certificate (subsection (1)). The disclosure without reasonable excuse of anything whose disclosure is prohibited by regulations under subsection (1) is a summary offence punishable by a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale, currently £5,000 (subsection (2)).