Regulation 4 Nomination of authorised individuals

A body or statutory office-holder applying for registration under section 120^f1 of the 1997 Act shall submit with the application the names of the individuals authorised to act for the body or statutory office-holder in relation to the countersigning of applications under Part 5 of the 1997 Act.

A registered body and a registered person who is a statutory office-holder shall submit to the Secretary of State the names of any individuals so authorised after the registration of the body or the statutory office-holder, whether or not in substitution for any name previously submitted.

The Secretary of State may refuse to accept, or to continue to accept, the nomination of an individual as so authorised if, in the opinion of the Secretary of State, that individual is not a suitable person to have access to information which has become, or is likely to become, available to him as a result of the registration of the body or the statutory office-holder which nominated him.

In determining for the purposes of this regulation whether an individual is a suitable person to have access to any information, the Secretary of State may have regard, in particular, to the matters specified in section 120A(3) of the 1997 Act^f2.

Where the Secretary of State refuses to accept, or to continue to accept, the nomination of an individual under this regulation, he shall notify the body or the statutory office-holder concerned, and that body or statutory office-holder may submit the name of another individual in substitution.