Regulation 12 Termination of authorisation or assignment

(1)

The Lord Chancellor may at any time terminate—

(a)

the authorisation of an individual to act as an enforcement officer; or

(b)

the assignment of an enforcement officer to any one or more of the districts to which he is assigned,

on any of the grounds in paragraph (2).

(2)

The grounds are that—

(a)

it would be in the public interest to do so;

(b)

any of the—

(i)

information provided in the application for authorisation; or

(ii)

documentation supplied,

under regulation 5 is found to be incomplete or untrue;

(c)

the enforcement officer or any person acting on his behalf who assists with his work as an enforcement officer has behaved in a manner which the Lord Chancellor reasonably considers to be unprofessional or unacceptable; or

(d)

the enforcement officer has failed to satisfy one or more of the conditions of regulation 8.

(3)

Where practicable, the Lord Chancellor when considering whether to terminate the authorisation or assignment of an enforcement officer shall firstly notify the enforcement officer of the reasons and provide the enforcement officer with a reasonable opportunity to—

(a)

make representations about the Lord Chancellor’s reasons for proposing to terminate his authorisation or assignment; and

(b)

remedy the circumstances giving rise to the Lord Chancellor’s proposal to terminate his authorisation or assignment.