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Version date: 15 March 2022 - onwards
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16. Information

(1) Regulations under section 1 may make provision -

(a) requiring or authorising persons of a prescribed description -

(i) to inform an appropriate authority of prescribed matters;

(ii) to create and retain registers or records;

(b) authorising an appropriate authority to require persons of a prescribed description to provide information, or produce documents, of a prescribed description;

(c) conferring powers to inspect and copy prescribed documents or information;

(d) conferring powers of entry in relation to powers conferred by virtue of paragraph (b) or (c), and about the exercise of any such powers of entry;

(e) authorising or restricting the disclosure of information, including provision -

(i) about the purposes for which information held in connection with anything done under or by virtue of the regulations may be used;

(ii) about the persons to whom any such information may be disclosed.