Part 3Other provisions
Chapter 1Sustainability certificates
General
282Register of certificates
1
The appropriate national authority may by regulations make provision about a register of sustainability certificates.
2
The regulations may, in particular, make provision of the kind mentioned in subsections (3) to (7).
3
The regulations may provide for a register to be kept—
a
by (or on behalf of) the appropriate national authority, or
b
by such other person as the regulations may specify or describe.
4
The regulations may require a person wishing to enter a document onto a register to pay such fee as may be prescribed.
5
No person may disclose—
a
a register or any document (or part of a document) contained in it, or
b
any information contained in, or derived from, a register,
except in accordance with any provision of the regulations which authorises or requires such a disclosure to be made.
6
The regulations may make provision as to circumstances in which, or purposes for which, a person or a person of a prescribed description—
a
may (on payment of such fee, if any, as may be prescribed)—
i
inspect a register or any document (or part of a document) contained in it,
ii
take or be given copies of a register or any document (or part of a document) contained in it, or
iii
be given information contained in, or derived from, a register, or
b
may disclose anything obtained by virtue of provision made under paragraph (a).
7
The purposes which may be so prescribed may be public purposes or purposes of private undertakings or other persons.
8
A person who contravenes subsection (5) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.
9
The appropriate national authority may by regulations provide for interim certificates or other documents to be included on a register.
10
In such a case, subsections (1) to (8) apply in relation to the interim certificates or other documents concerned as they apply in relation to sustainability certificates.