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(1)Regulations under section 1 may make provision—
(a)requiring persons of a prescribed description—
(i)to inform an appropriate authority of prescribed matters;
(ii)to create and retain registers or records;
(b)authorising an appropriate authority to require persons of a prescribed description to provide information, or produce documents, of a prescribed description;
(c)conferring powers to inspect and copy prescribed documents or information;
(d)conferring powers of entry in relation to powers conferred by virtue of paragraph (b) or (c), and about the exercise of any such powers of entry;
(e)authorising or restricting the disclosure of information, including provision—
(i)about the purposes for which information held in connection with anything done under or by virtue of the regulations may be used;
(ii)about the persons to whom any such information may be disclosed.
(2)Without prejudice to anything in subsection (1), regulations under section 1 may include provision authorising or requiring prescribed information about a person designated by or under the regulations to be notified to prescribed persons or to be publicised.
(3)In subsection (1) “appropriate authority” means—
(a)an appropriate Minister, or
(b)such other person as may be prescribed.
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