Regulation 52 Inspection and copying of documentsI1

Any request to inspect or make copies of any document referred to in section 20(1)(b) or (c) of the 2006 Act must be treated by the registration authority as a request for information under the relevant legislation.

Where the relevant legislation does not require the information contained in the document to be communicated or made available, the registration authority may refuse to permit inspection, or copies to be taken, of that document.

In this regulation and in regulation 53, “relevant legislation” means the Environmental Information Regulations 2004^f1 or the Freedom of Information Act 2000^f2.