Section 84: Ministers’ powers to remove from list
173.Subsection (2) modifies section 28 of the PVG Act so that Ministers have a power to receive and consider late representations from an individual as to why they should not have been listed when it is appropriate to do so in the circumstances. This is to allow the listed individual to provide information to Ministers, which, if they had done before listing, would have led to a decision not to list.
174.Subsection (3) broadens section 29(1)(b) of the PVG Act so that Ministers have discretion to remove an individual from either of the lists at any time if they are satisfied that the individual is no longer unsuitable to carry out the relevant type of regulated role. This is in addition to the exiting discretion to remove from the list if they are satisfied that the individual should not have been listed.
