76.—(1) The appropriate authority must maintain and make available in accordance with this regulation a register relating to—
(a)those producers who are registered with it in accordance with regulation 26; and
(b)those producers who are registered with the Secretary of State in accordance with regulation 42 and whose details have been provided to the appropriate authority by the Secretary of State under regulation 73(1),
and containing the information specified in Schedule 6.
(2) The appropriate authority must—
(a)ensure that the register is open to public inspection at its principal office free of charge at all reasonable hours; and
(b)permit any person on request to obtain copies of entries in the register on payment of a reasonable charge.
(3) The register may be kept in any form but must be indexed and arranged so that any person inspecting it can readily trace information contained in it.
(4) The appropriate authority must amend the relevant entry in the register to record any change to the information entered and must note the date on which the amendment is made.
(5) Where the appropriate authority receives—
(a)a notification under regulation 29(2); or
(b)information from the Secretary of State under regulation 73(2),
stating that a producer has ceased to be a producer, that producer's details must not be removed from the register until the compliance period in which the producer ceased to be a producer has ended.
(6) The appropriate authority must publish the format in which—
(a)an application for registration made under regulation 26(3) or 26(4); or
(b)a notification made under regulation 29,
must be made.