PART 7POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE DEPARTMENT
Public register33
1
The Department shall maintain and make available in accordance with this regulation a register relating to—
a
the producers and schemes registered with it in accordance with Part 3; and
b
the reprocessors and exporters accredited by it in accordance with Part 5,
and containing the relevant information prescribed in Schedule 7.
2
The Department shall—
a
secure that the register is open for inspection at its principal office by members of the public free of charge at all reasonable working hours; and
b
permit members of the public to obtain copies of entries in the register on payment of reasonable charges.
3
The register may be kept in any form but shall be indexed and arranged so that members of the public can readily trace information contained in it.
4
The Department shall amend the relevant entry in the register to record any change to the information entered and shall note the date on which the amendment is made.
5
Nothing in this regulation shall require a register maintained by the Department to contain information relating to, or to anything which is the subject-matter of, any criminal proceedings (including prospective proceedings) at any time before those proceedings are finally disposed of.
6
Nothing in this regulation shall require a register maintained by the Department to contain any information which has been superseded by later information after 4 years have elapsed from that later information being entered in the register.