PART 5INFORMATION AND PUBLICITY

Public registers of informationI130

1

Subject to regulations 31 and 32 and to paragraphs 2 to 5 of Schedule 10 it shall be the duty of each enforcing authority, as respects installations or mobile plant for which it is the enforcing authority, to maintain a register containing the particulars described in paragraph 1 of that Schedule.

2

Subject to paragraph (3), the register maintained by a district council shall also contain any particulars contained in any register maintained by the chief inspector relating to the operation of an installation or Part A mobile plant in the district of the district council in relation to which the chief inspector has functions under these Regulations.

3

The chief inspector shall furnish each district council with the particulars which are necessary to enable it to discharge its duty under paragraph (2).

4

Where information of any description is excluded from any register by virtue of regulation 32, a statement shall be entered in the register indicating the existence of information of that description.

5

It shall be the duty of each enforcing authority–

a

to secure that the registers maintained by them under this regulation are available, at all reasonable times, for inspection by the public free of charge; and

b

to afford to members of the public facilities for obtaining copies of entries, on payment of reasonable charges.

6

Registers under this regulation may be kept in any form.