Regulation 7 Powers of the Secretary of State
From 6th April 2015 the Secretary of State may serve a notice on a database operator requiring it to provide—
any information recorded on the database;
any information relating to the functioning of the regulatory regime established by these regulations;
any information necessary to demonstrate that it is meeting the conditions in regulation 6.
Where the Secretary of State is satisfied that a database operator does not meet the conditions in regulation 6, the Secretary of State may serve a notice requiring the operator—
to cease holding itself out as meeting the conditions in regulation 6;
to provide the Secretary of State or another database operator with an electronic copy of all the data recorded on its database pursuant to regulation 3(5)(b).