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. |