Information not to be included in the register
29.—(1) No information shall be included in the register if and so long as, in the opinion of the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment, the inclusion in the register of that information, or information of that description, would be a breach of confidentiality.
(2) For the purpose of securing the exclusion from the register of information to which paragraph (1) applies, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment may give the competent authority directions—
(a)specifying information, or descriptions of information, to be excluded from the register; or
(b)specifying descriptions of information to be referred to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment for its determination.
(3) No information referred to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment under paragraph (2)(b) shall be included in the register unless the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment determines that it should be included.
(4) The competent authority shall notify the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment of any information it excludes from the register in accordance with directions given to it under paragraph (2).
(5) A person may give a written notice to the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment specifying information which appears to that person to be information to which paragraph (1) may apply and stating why it should not be included in the register.
(6) If a person gives a written notice under paragraph (5), at the same time that person shall give written notice to the competent authority that they have done so.
(7) No information notified under paragraph (5) shall be included in the register unless the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment determines that it should be included.