Part 2 REGULATION OF REGISTRATION PLATE SUPPLIERS
Registration
18 Register of registration plate suppliers
(1)
The Secretary of State shall establish and maintain a register of persons carrying on business as registration plate suppliers.
(2)
Each person’s entry in the register shall contain such particulars as may be prescribed.
(3)
The Secretary of State shall, subject to subsection (6) and such fee (if any) as may be prescribed, supply any person who has requested information contained in the register with the information that he has requested.
(4)
If the request is for information in the form of a copy (certified to be true) of the register or of an extract from it, the Secretary of State shall, subject to subsection (6) and such fee (if any) as may be prescribed, supply the information in that form.
(5)
Any such certified copy shall be evidence of the matters mentioned in it.
(6)
The Secretary of State may by regulations specify—
(a)
descriptions of persons who are not entitled to be supplied with information under subsection (3); and
(b)
descriptions of information which shall not be supplied under that subsection.
(7)
The Secretary of State may make all of the information contained in the register or information so contained of a particular description available to the Police Information Technology Organisation for use by constables for the purpose of investigating offences under this Part.
(8)
The Secretary of State may by regulations determine the circumstances in which any of the information to which constables have been given access under subsection (7) may be further disclosed by them.