Regulation 7 Amendment of Regulations

After regulation 14 (power to seize document in respect of which offences may have been committed) insert—

“Review

14A.

(1)

Before the end of each review period, the Secretary of State must—

(a)

carry out a review of regulations 2 to 14;

(b)

set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

(c)

publish the report.

(2)

In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the Directive (as implemented by means of regulations 2 to 14) is implemented in other member States.

(3)

The report must in particular—

(a)

set out the objectives intended to be achieved by the regulatory system established by those regulations;

(b)

assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and

(c)

assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved with a system that imposes less regulation.

(4)

In this regulation “review period” means—

(a)

the period of five years beginning on 1st October 2011; and

(b)

subject to paragraph (5), each successive period of five years.

(5)

If a report under this regulation is published before the last day of the review period to which it relates, the following review period is to begin with the day on which that report is published.”.