Powers of the Secretary of State

8.—(1) The Secretary of State may serve a notice on a database operator requiring it to provide any information—

(a)recorded on a database which it operates;

(b)relating to the functioning of the regulatory regime established by these Regulations;

(c)necessary to demonstrate that it is meeting the conditions in regulation 7.

(2) Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a database operator does not meet the conditions in regulation 7, the Secretary of State may serve a notice requiring that database operator to—

(a)cease holding itself out as meeting the conditions in regulation 7; and

(b)provide the Secretary of State or another database operator with an electronic copy of all the data recorded on its database pursuant to regulation 3(4)(b).