Inspection etc. of records kept by the AuthorityU.K.
75.—[F1(1) Any person may inspect the register kept by the Authority for the purposes of this Part of these Regulations, and may require a copy of any material on the register.
(1A) The Authority may specify the form and manner in which an application is to be made for inspection or a copy under paragraph (1).
(1B) Copies of documents required to be registered under regulation 4 must be provided in hard copy or electronic form, as the applicant requests.
(1C) The Authority is not obliged by paragraph (1B) to provide copies in electronic form of a document that was delivered to the Authority in hard copy form if the document was delivered to the Authority on or before 31st December 2006 and ten years or more elapsed between the date of delivery and the date of receipt of the first application for a copy.
(1D) Subject to paragraphs (1B) and (1C), the Authority may determine the form and manner in which copies are to be provided.
(1E) Copies provided under paragraph (1) in hard copy form must be certified as true copies unless the applicant dispenses with such certification.
(1F) Copies provided under paragraph (1) in electronic form must not be certified as true copies unless the applicant expressly requests such certification.]
(2) The right of inspection extends to the originals of documents delivered to the Authority [F2in hard copy form] only where the record kept by the Authority of the contents of the document is illegible or unavailable.
(3) [F3A copy provided under this regulation], on which is endorsed a certificate signed by a member of the Authority’s staff authorised by it for that purpose certifying that it is an accurate record of the contents of any document delivered to the Authority under these Regulations, is in all legal proceedings admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original document and as evidence of any fact stated therein of which direct oral evidence would be admissible.
(4) No process for compelling the production of a document kept by the Authority under these Regulations is to issue from any court except with the leave of the court; and any such process must bear on it a statement that it is issued with the leave of the court.
Textual Amendments
F1Reg. 75(1)-(1F) substituted for reg. 75(1) (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 27(a) (with Sch. 3)
F2Words in reg. 75(2) substituted (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 27(b) (with Sch. 3)
F3Words in reg. 75(3) substituted (12.5.2011) by The Companies Act 2006 (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1265), art. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 27(c) (with Sch. 3)