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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 No. 675
47.—(1) The appropriate authority may direct the regulator that in the interests of national security specified information or information of a specified description must be excluded from a public register.
(2) The regulator must notify the appropriate authority of any information (other than information relating to a radioactive substances activity) that it excludes from a public register pursuant to such a direction.
(3) The appropriate authority may direct the regulator that in the interests of national security information of a specified description—
(a)must be referred to the authority for its determination as to whether or not the information may be included on a public register; and
(b)must not be included on a public register unless the appropriate authority determines that it may be included.
(4) A person may give a notice to the appropriate authority stating that, in the person’s opinion, the inclusion of information on a public register would be contrary to the interests of national security.
(5) A notice under paragraph (4) must specify the information and indicate its apparent nature.
(6) A person giving a notice under paragraph (4) must at the same time notify the regulator.
(7) The regulator must not include information notified under paragraph (4) on a public register unless the appropriate authority determines that it may be included.
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