21.—(1) The Secretary of State shall maintain and make available in accordance with this regulation a register relating to those producers who register in accordance with regulation 7 and containing the information prescribed in Schedule 5.
(2) The Secretary of State shall —
(a)ensure that the register is open for inspection at her principal office by members of the public free of charge at all reasonable hours; and
(b)permit members of the public to obtain copies of entries in the register on payment of a reasonable charge.
(3) The register may be kept in any form but shall be indexed and arranged so that members of the public can readily trace information contained in it.
(4) The Secretary of State shall amend the relevant entry in the register to record any change to the information entered and shall note the date on which the amendment is made.
(5) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this regulation shall require the register to contain information relating to any criminal proceedings (including prospective proceedings) or to anything which is the subject matter of such proceedings, at any time before those proceedings are finally disposed of.
(6) Nothing in this regulation shall require the register to contain any information which has been superseded by later information after four years have elapsed from that later information being entered in the register.