Regulation 3 National security

The Authority, a licence holder or the Council may refuse to supply under section 24 (provision of information to Council) or 26 (provision of information by Council to Authority) of the Act any information which it would be against the interests of national security to make public.

The Secretary of State may certify for the purposes of paragraph (1) whether or not the making public of particular information would be against the interests of national security, and any such certificate shall, subject to any exercise of a court’s jurisdiction to review it, be conclusive.

A certificate under paragraph (2) may identify the information in question by means of a general description.