Environmental Protection Act 1990 : chapter 43.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
[1990], ©1990
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Credit: Environmental Protection Act 1990 : chapter 43. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ParRT I 1989 co 15. Exclusion from registers of information affecting national security. Exclusion from registers of certain confidential information. (7) It shall be the duty of each enforcing authority— (a) to secure that the registers maintained by them under this section are available, at all reasonable times, for inspection by the public free of charge; and (b) to afford to members of the public facilities for obtaining copies of entries, on payment of reasonable charges. (8) Registers under this section may be kept in any form. (9) For the purpose of enabling the National Rivers Authority to discharge its duty under section 117(1)(f) of the Water Act 1989 to keep corresponding particulars in registers under that section, the chief inspector shall furnish the Authority with the particulars contained in any register maintained by him under this section. (10) In this section “‘prescribed”’ means prescribed in regulations under this section. 21.—(1) No information shall be included in a register maintained under section 20 above if and so long as, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, the inclusion in the register of that information, or information of that description, would be contrary to the interests of national security. (2) The Secretary of State may, for the purpose of securing the exclusion from registers of information to which subsection (1) above applies, give to enforcing authorities directions— (a) specifying information, or descriptions of information, to be excluded from their registers; or (b) specifying descriptions of information to be referred to the Secretary of State for his determination; and no information referred to the Secretary of State in pursuance of paragraph (b) above shall be included in any such register until the Secretary of State determines that it should be so included. (3) The enforcing authority shall notify the Secretary of State of any information it excludes from the register in pursuance of directions under subsection (2) above. (4) A person may, as respects any information which appears to him to be information to which subsection (1) above may apply, give a notice to the Secretary of State specifying the information and indicating its apparent nature; and, if he does so— (a) he shall notify the enforcing authority that he has done so; and (b) no information so notified to the Secretary of State shall be included in any such register until the Secretary of State has determined that it should be so included. 22.—(1) No information relating to the affairs of any individual or business shall be included in a register maintained under section 20 above, without the consent of that individual or the person for the time being carrying on that business, if and so long as the information— r¢ \ (a) is, in relation to him, commercially confidential; and