Housing and Regeneration Act 2008

282 Register of certificates

(1) The appropriate national authority may by regulations make provision about a register of sustainability certificates.

(2) The regulations may, in particular, make provision of the kind mentioned in subsections (3) to (7).

(3) The regulations may provide for a register to be kept—

(a) by (or on behalf of) the appropriate national authority, or

(b) by such other person as the regulations may specify or describe.

(4) The regulations may require a person wishing to enter a document onto a register to pay such fee as may be prescribed.

(5) No person may disclose—

(a) a register or any document (or part of a document) contained in it, or

(b) any information contained in, or derived from, a register,

except in accordance with any provision of the regulations which authorises or requires such a disclosure to be made.

(6) The regulations may make provision as to circumstances in which, or purposes for which, a person or a person of a prescribed description—

(a) may (on payment of such fee, if any, as may be prescribed)—

(i) inspect a register or any document (or part of a document) contained in it,

(ii) take or be given copies of a register or any document (or part of a document) contained in it, or

(iii) be given information contained in, or derived from, a register, or

(b) may disclose anything obtained by virtue of provision made under paragraph (a).

(7) The purposes which may be so prescribed may be public purposes or purposes of private undertakings or other persons.

(8) A person who contravenes subsection (5) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(9) The appropriate national authority may by regulations provide for interim certificates or other documents to be included on a register.

(10) In such a case, subsections (1) to (8) apply in relation to the interim certificates or other documents concerned as they apply in relation to sustainability certificates.