“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”—

(a)

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

(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.”