Applications for a licence
8.—(1) An application for a licence or for the amendment of a licence is valid only if it complies with this regulation.
(2) The application must—
(a)be made on a form and in a manner approved for that purpose by the Secretary of State,
(b)contain the information required by that form, and
(c)be accompanied by such further information or documentation as the Secretary of State may require.
(3) The power of the Secretary of State to approve the manner in which applications may be made includes power to require all applications to be made, and all further information or documentation to be submitted, by electronic means.
(4) The Secretary of State must publish details of the forms and other matters approved or required from time to time for the purposes of paragraph (2).
(5) The applicant must—
(a)provide any additional information or documentation that the Secretary of State requests in order to decide the applicant’s application,
(b)assist and co-operate as far as reasonably practicable with any investigations or checks that the Secretary of State thinks it appropriate to carry out for that purpose, and
(c)do such other things as the Secretary of State may request for that purpose.
(6) The investigations and checks that the Secretary of State may carry out include investigations and checks about for example—
(a)the applicant’s physical or mental health, and
(b)the commission or alleged commission by the applicant of any offence (including cautions, or convictions, that are spent).
(7) The applicant, in making the application, is deemed to have consented to—
(a)the carrying out of any investigations or checks that the Secretary of State thinks it appropriate to carry out in order to decide the application, and
(b)the processing by any person of information about the applicant (including sensitive personal data) that needs to be processed by that person for or in connection with those investigations and checks.
(8) “Processing” and “sensitive personal data” have the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 1998(1).