Applications for registration: communications with Commission
7.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to any requirement for applicants to send documents or information to the Commission under section 207 of the 2011 Act (application for CIO to be constituted and registered)(1).
(2) The Commission may—
(a)require the contents of the document to be in a standard form;
(b)require the document to be produced in the manner the Commission considers fit for the purpose of enabling that document to be scanned or copied;
(c)require the document to be authenticated by a particular person or persons of a particular description;
(d)where a requirement is imposed under sub-paragraph (c), specify the means of authentication;
(e)specify the means to be used for sending the document to the Commission (for example by post or by electronic means);
(f)where the document is to be sent by electronic means, specify—
(i)the hardware or software to be used; and
(ii)the requirements as to the technical specifications including protocol, security, anti-virus protection and encryption.
(3) Any requirements imposed by the Commission under this regulation—
(a)must not be inconsistent with requirements imposed by any enactment as to the form, authentication or manner of sending the document concerned; and
(b)must be published by the Commission in such manner as it thinks fit.
(4) Where a document or information is sent or supplied by the applicants by electronic means, it may only be sent or supplied to an address specified for the purpose by the Commission.
(5) If the applicants send or supply a document or information to the Commission in electronic form—
(a)the applicants are treated as having agreed to accept a response in electronic form; and
(b)where the document or information is sent or supplied by the applicants by electronic means from an electronic address, or the applicants have given such an address in the document or information (subject to any limitations specified when providing that address), the applicants are treated as having agreed to the response being sent by electronic means to that address.