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.