Regulation 10 Limit on number of countersignatures

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 10(1) words inserted by Police Act 1997 (Criminal Records) (Electronic Communications) 2009 art. 20
reg. 10(1) words substituted by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) 2012 art. 88(g)
reg. 10(2) words substituted by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) 2012 art. 88(g)
reg. 10(3) words substituted by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (Disclosure and Barring Service Transfer of Functions) 2012 art. 88(g)

(1)

The Secretary of State may refuse to accept a registered body’s or statutory office-holder’s nomination of a person to countersign any applications under Part 5 of the 1997 Act if the maximum number of names for that registered body or statutory office-holder are already registered.

(2)

For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, the maximum number of names for a registered body or statutory office-holder is that specified administratively by the Secretary of State.

(3)

Where more than the maximum number of names have been registered, the Secretary of State may remove from the register such number of names as is necessary to bring the registered body’s or statutory office-holder’s number of registered names to the maximum number permitted.