Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Act 2025

Power to appoint authorised officers

36. (1) This section and section 37 apply to the following persons:

(a) ATM operators;

(b) CIT providers.

(2) The Bank may, in writing—

(a) appoint such and so many persons as the Bank considers necessary to be authorised officers for the purpose of monitoring compliance with Part 3 and this Part by persons to whom this section and section 37 applies, and

(b) at any time, revoke any such appointment.

(3) Subject to subsection (2)(b), an appointment under subsection (2)(a) may be for a specified or unspecified period.

(4) Every authorised officer shall—

(a) be furnished by the Bank with a certificate of his or her appointment as an authorised officer, and

(b) when exercising a power conferred by this Part, produce the certificate or a copy of it, together with a form of personal identification, for inspection, if requested to do so by a person affected by the exercise of the power.

(5) An appointment under subsection (2) of a person as an authorised officer ceases on the occurrence of the earliest of the following:

(a) where the Bank revokes the appointment, the time of revocation;

(b) where the person dies, the time of death;

(c) where the person resigns from the appointment, the time of resignation;

(d) where the appointment is for a specified period, the end of that period;

(e) where the person appointed is, when appointed, an officer of the Bank, when the person ceases to be such an officer;

(f) where the person appointed is, when appointed, a person employed by a third party to which the Bank has delegated a function under this Part, when the person ceases to be so employed.