PART 2The lobbying register
The register
3Lobbying register
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.