PART 4N.I.COOPERATION WITH EXTERNAL COMPETENT AUTHORITIES
Cooperation with external competent authoritiesN.I.
45.—(1) When necessary in order to meet its obligations under these Regulations, a competent authority shall use all reasonable endeavours to secure the cooperation of an external competent authority.
(2) A competent authority—
(a)when requested to do so by an external competent authority; and
(b)if necessary to meet that external competent authority’s obligations arising under the Directive;
shall cooperate with that external competent authority.
(3) In this Part “external competent authority” means a competent authority in the Republic of Ireland, England, Scotland or Wales designated for the purposes of Article 4 of the Directive.