30.—(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.