Environment and Safety Information Act 1988
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1988 c. 30 |
| Year | 1988 |
maintain a register of such notices relevant for the purposes of this Act as are served after the coming into force of this Act by the authority or by a person authorised by the authority or for whom the authority is the responsible authority;ensure that the register is adequately indexed so as to enable entries relating to any particular premises (or, where the notice does not relate to any particular premises, to any particular person) to be located;ensure that the register and the index are open to inspection by the public free of charge at all reasonable hours;on request, and upon payment of any such reasonable fee as the authority may require, supply copies of entries in the register to any person inspecting the register.(2) Each entry in the register shall state sufficient particulars to convey the substance of the notice to which it relates.(3) Any authority which is required to maintain a register under this section may discharge that duty by maintaining different registers containing entries relating to different areas.(4) Any register under this section may be kept by means of a computer.(1) The authorities to which this Act applies are those specified in the third column of the Schedule to this Act.the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, if the individual is employed in his Ministry and was authorised by that Minister;the Health and Safety Executive, if the individual was authorised by that Executive on behalf of that MinisterF6, the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers;any public or local authority by whom the individual is employed, if he was authorised by that MinisterF7, the Secretary of State or the Welsh Ministers; in any case not falling within paragraphs (a) to (c) where the notice is served in Wales, the Welsh Ministers; orin any other case, the Secretary of State.(3) The notices relevant for the purposes of this Act are those served under any of the provisions specified in the fourth column of the Schedule to this Act, other than notices which impose requirements or prohibitions solely for the protection of persons at work.(4) In this section “persons at work” has the same meaning as it has in Part I of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974.where there is no right of appeal against the notice, the period of 14 days following the day on which the notice is served;where there is a right of appeal but no appeal is brought within the time limited for doing so, the period of 14 days following the day on which the time so limited expires; orwhere there is such a right and an appeal is brought, the period of 14 days following the day on which the appeal is finally disposed of.(2) No such entry as is mentioned in subsection (1) above shall be made if the notice is cancelled in consequence of an appeal which has been finally disposed of.(3) Where the authority or other person by whom a notice was served which is relevant for the purposes of this Act is satisfied that the notice has been complied with, an entry to that effect shall be made in the register within seven days from the day on which the authority or person is so satisfied.(4) Where a notice is withdrawn or amended any entries in the register which relate to that notice shall be deleted or, as the case may be, amended within the period of seven days following the date of the withdrawal or amendment.(5) Any entries in the register which relate to a notice shall be kept in the register for a period of not less than three years from the date on which the notice was served.(1) This section applies where a person on whom a notice has been served (“the person affected”) gives written notification to the authority, within the period of 14 days following the date of service, that the making of an entry in the register in relation to the notice would disclose information about a trade secret or secret manufacturing process (“the secret”) .shall draft such an entry as, in their opinion, would make particulars of the notice public without disclosing information about the secret; andshall serve on the person affected a copy of the draft and a notice of
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