Commentary on provisions of Act Section 16: Designation notices Section 105Z10: Variation and revocation of designation notices
This section sets out the Secretary of State’s power to vary or revoke a designation notice given under section 105Z8 and the associated requirements for consultation and notification.
	Subsection (1) requires the Secretary of State to periodically review designation notices.
	Subsection (2) allows the Secretary of State to vary or revoke a designation notice, although a notice may only be varied if it is in the interests of national security (subsection (3)). Before varying a notice, the Secretary of State must, where reasonably practicable, consult the person who is proposed to be designated in the varied notice (subsection (4)), unless this would be contrary to the interests of national security (subsection (5)).
	Subsection (6) requires the Secretary of State, where reasonably practicable, to notify persons about a variation if they are designated in the varied notice or were designated before the variation.
	Subsection (7) requires the notice of variation to state how the designation is varied, the time when the variation, or each of them, comes into force and the reasons for the variation. Reasons do not need to be provided where this would be contrary to the interests of national security (subsection (8)).
	Subsections (9) and (10) replicate in part the provisions relating to giving notice of variation and what the notice must specify, but for a notice of revocation rather than variation.