Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014

21 Guidance

(1) The Registrar may give guidance about how the Registrar proposes to exercise the functions under this Part.

(2) The Registrar may do so, in particular, by publishing guidance—

(a) as to cases which the Registrar would, or would not, regard as falling within any of the exceptions in Part 1 of Schedule 1;

(b) otherwise as to the circumstances in which the Registrar would, or would not, consider that a person is carrying on the business of consultant lobbying;

(c) as to the circumstances in which the Registrar would—

(i) include in the register a statement under section 6(6)(a), or

(ii) remove a person’s entry from the register;

(d) as to the circumstances in which the Registrar would consider it appropriate to impose a civil penalty;

(e) about how the amount of a civil penalty will be determined.

(3) The Registrar may publish—

(a) revisions to any guidance published under this section;

(b) replacement guidance.

(4) Publication under this section is to be—

(a) on a website, and

(b) in such other form or forms as the Registrar considers appropriate.