12.—(1) A code operator shall retain all his records created prior to the date on which these Regulations come into force of where his electronic communications apparatus installed in or under a maintainable highway or street or, in Scotland, a public road or a road is located.
(2) Where a person who has reasonable grounds to inspect any records kept pursuant to paragraph (1) makes a request to inspect them, a code operator shall make them available for that purpose as soon as practicable and, in any case, within one month of the request being made.