Part 1: Call-in for national security Chapter 4: Procedure Section 14: Mandatory notification procedure
Section 14 requires notifiable acquisitions (see section 6) to be notified to the Secretary of State and describes the procedure for doing so. Pursuant to subsection (1) a person who is to make a notifiable acquisition must give a mandatory notice to the Secretary of State prior to the acquisition taking place.
	Subsection (4) provides that the Secretary of State may by regulations prescribe the form and content of a mandatory notice.
	Subsection (5) provides that, as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving a mandatory notice, the Secretary of State must decide whether to reject or accept the notice.
	Subsection (6) sets out the grounds on which the Secretary of State may reject a mandatory notice. Subsection (7) provides that, if a mandatory notice is rejected, the Secretary of State must, as soon as practicable, provide reasons in writing for that decision to the person who gave the notice.
	Subsection (8) provides that, if a mandatory notice is accepted, the Secretary of State must, as soon as practicable, notify each relevant person, and, before the end of the review period (see the next paragraph), either give a call-in notice in relation to the proposed notifiable acquisition (see section 1), or notify each relevant person that no further action will be taken under the Act in relation to the acquisition. Subsection (10) defines "relevant person" as the person who gave the mandatory notice and such other persons as the Secretary of State considers appropriate.
	Subsection (9) provides that the review period lasts 30 working days beginning with the day on which the Secretary of State notifies the person who gave the mandatory notice that it has been accepted.