SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 12The Chief Inspector and other inspectors etc.

Part 2Inspectors etc. acting on behalf of Chief Inspector

Provisions relating to additional inspectors provided by inspection service providers

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1

This paragraph applies to arrangements made with inspection service providers under paragraph 11(2) (“ISP arrangements”).

2

In pursuance of his duty under paragraph 10(2), so far as applying to additional inspectors provided under ISP arrangements, the Chief Inspector—

a

must publish in such manner as he thinks fit, and

b

may from time to time revise,

a statement of the matters mentioned in sub-paragraph (3).

3

The matters are—

a

the qualifications or experience (or both) that are to be required of additional inspectors provided under ISP arrangements, and

b

the standards that such additional inspectors are to be required to meet in the exercise of their functions and the skills that they are to be required to demonstrate in the exercise of those functions.

4

ISP arrangements must be made on terms that require the inspection service provider to secure compliance with any requirements that are for the time being published under sub-paragraph (2).

5

Where the Chief Inspector has entered into any ISP arrangements, he must publish, at intervals of not more than 12 months, a list of the names of the persons who are, at a specified date, currently notified to him by the inspection service provider as persons with whom the provider proposes to make arrangements for the carrying out of inspections on behalf of the Chief Inspector.