Information must not be included in the register if and so long as a direction by the Secretary of State or the Scottish Ministers M1 is in force in relation to that information under section 21 of the 1990 Act (exclusion from registers of information affecting national security).

Information must not be included in the register if and so long as a direction by the Secretary of State is in force in relation to that information under section 20(6) of the 1990 Act.

A direction under section 21(2) of the 1990 Act applies to the register as it applies to the register maintained under section 20 of that Act (“the 1990 Act register”), and no information referred by SEPA under section 21(2)(b) of the 1990 Act is to be included in the register until the question of its inclusion is determined for the purposes of that section.

A direction under section 20(6) of the 1990 Act applies to the register as it applies to the 1990 Act register.

Section 21(3) and (4) of the 1990 Act applies to the register as it applies to the 1990 Act register, and no information notified under section 21(4)(b) of the 1990 Act may be included in the register until the question of its inclusion is determined for the purposes of section 21 of the 1990 Act.

In this regulation, “the 1990 Act” means the Environmental Protection Act 1990 M2.