20.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the Department may delegate to any person the exercise of the following functions—
(a)determining applications made under regulation 10 and issuing any associated documents;
(b)recognising trainers and examiners under regulation 21;
(c)establishing, keeping up to date and publishing registers of persons recognised under regulation 21; and
(d)establishing and keeping up to date a register of train driving licences under regulation 22.
(2) If the Department delegates any such function—
(a)the delegation does not affect the responsibility of the Department for the exercise of those functions;
(b)the person to whom it is delegated must comply with the same requirements of these Regulations as would apply to the Department in the exercise of those functions; and
(c)the Department must establish a system for monitoring how the function is carried out.
(3) The Department may not delegate the functions referred to in regulation 20(1)(a) to a railway undertaking except for the purposes of that body carrying out those functions in relation to persons who are employed by the body as train drivers or are applying to them to be so employed.