17AReview of authorisations

1

The authorising authority—

a

must carry out periodic reviews of the limitations and conditions attached to each authorisation under section 13 or 14; and

b

may, at any other time, carry out any such additional review of the limitations and conditions attached to an authorisation under either of those sections as it thinks fit.

2

In this section—

• “the authorising authority”—

  1. a

     in relation to an authorisation having effect in Great Britain, means the appropriate Agency; and

  2. b

     in relation to an authorisation having effect in Northern Ireland, means the chief inspector;

• “periodic reviews”, in relation to an authorisation, means reviews at such regular intervals as the authorising authority thinks fit in the case of that authorisation.