Amendment of provision about copies

6.—(1) Regulation 7 of the 2001 Regulations (copies of documents) shall become paragraph (1) of regulation 7.

(2) After that paragraph insert–

“(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the full register.

(3) A person inspecting the full register may not–

(a)make copies of any part of it, or

(b)record any particulars included in it,

otherwise than by means of hand-written notes.

(4) A person who inspects the full register and makes a copy of it or records any particulars included in it otherwise than by means of hand-written notes shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.

(5) In this regulation “full register” includes–

(a)any part of it, and

(b)any notice published under section 13A(2) or 13B(3) of the 1983 Act(1) altering the register.”.