Regulation 25 Register to be kept for the purposes of regulation 20

For the purposes of regulation 20 F1the F2Commission shall maintain and keep up-to-date, in printed or electronic form, a register of the numbers allocated to subscribers, in respect of particular lines, who have notified F3the Commission or, prior to 30thDecember 2016, OFCOM (notwithstanding, in the case of individual subscribers, that they enjoy the benefit of regulation 20(1)(a) and (2)) that they do not for the time being wish to receive unsolicited communications for direct marketing purposes by means of facsimile machine on the lines in question.

The Commission shall remove a number from the register maintained under paragraph (1) where F4the Commission has reason to believe that it has ceased to be allocated to the subscriber by whom F5the Commission was or, prior to 30th December 2016, OFCOM were notified pursuant to paragraph (1).

On the request of—

for information derived from the register kept under paragraph (1), the Commission shall, unless it is not reasonably practicable so to do, on the payment to F6the Commission of such fee as is, subject to paragraph (4), required by the Commission, make the information requested available to that person or that subscriber.

For the purposes of paragraph (3) the Commission may require different fees—

but the fees required by the Commission shall be ones in relation to which the Secretary of State has notified the Commission that he is satisfied that they are designed to secure, as nearly as may be and taking one year with another, that the aggregate fees received, or reasonably expected to be received, equal the costs incurred, or reasonably expected to be incurred, by the Commission in discharging F7the Commission’s duties under paragraphs (1), (2) and (3).

The functions of the Commission under paragraphs (1), (2) and (3), other than the function of determining the fees to be required for the purposes of paragraph (3), may be discharged on the Commission’s behalf by some other person in pursuance of arrangements made by the Commission with that other person.