Commentary on provisions of Act Section 15: Designated vendor directions Section 105Z6: Notice of variation and revocation of designated vendor directions
This section sets out the notice requirements where the Secretary of State seeks to vary and/or revoke a designated vendor direction.
	Subsection (1) requires the Secretary of State to notify providers when a direction is varied.
	Subsection (2) requires the notice to specify how the direction is varied, the time at which the varied requirements come into force and the reasons for the variation.
	Subsection (3) provides that reasons do not need to be given where the Secretary of State considers that doing so would be contrary to the interests of national security.
	Subsection (4) states that the Secretary of State must send a copy of the notice to the relevant designated vendor where this is reasonably practicable. This does not apply where doing so would be contrary to the interests of national security (subsection (5)).
	Subsection (6) allows the Secretary of State to exclude from a copy of a notice anything which might prejudice to an unreasonable degree any person’s commercial interests or be contrary to the interests of national security if disclosed.
	Subsections (7) to (11) replicate in part the subsections above but in relation to notices of revocation rather than variation. Notice of a revocation must be given to providers and designated vendors who were subject to the direction as it had effect before the revocation, providing this would not be contrary to interests of national security.