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(1)The Clerk must establish and maintain a lobbying register (the “register”), containing information about active registrants, inactive registrants and voluntary registrants.
(2)The Clerk must publish, by such means as the Clerk considers appropriate, the information about active registrants which is contained in the register.
(3)But the Clerk may withhold from publication information relating to an individual if the Clerk considers that it would be inappropriate to make that information publicly available.
(4)The Clerk may publish, by such means as the Clerk considers appropriate, such information as the Clerk considers appropriate about—
(a)inactive registrants, and
(b)voluntary registrants.
(5)In exercising functions under this Part, the Clerk must have regard to the parliamentary guidance (see section 43).
(6)In this Part—
“active registrant” means a person entered in the register under section 10,
“inactive registrant” means a person entered in the register as an inactive registrant under section 12 or 13,
“voluntary registrant” means a person entered in the register as a voluntary registrant under section 14.
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