9.—(1) The Scottish Ministers may serve a notice on a database operator requiring it to provide—
(a)any information necessary to demonstrate that it is meeting the conditions in regulation 8; or
(b)such statistical information as is extractable from the database as they request.
(2) Where the Scottish Ministers are satisfied that a person holding itself out as meeting the conditions in regulation 8 does not meet any one of the conditions in regulation 8, the Scottish Ministers may serve a notice requiring that person to—
(a)cease holding itself out as meeting the conditions in regulation 8; and
(b)provide the Scottish Ministers or another database operator with an electronic copy of all of its retained data.
(3) A notice served under paragraph (1) or (2) must state the date on which it takes effect, which date may not be less than 21 days after the day on which it is served.