Subsection (1)(a) indicates that regulations may require the operator to make certain information contained in active entries, and in entries related to banning orders, offences, financial penalties, or regulatory action, available to the public.
	Subsection (1)(b) states that regulations may require that entries relating to offences, penalties or regulatory action must be linked to corresponding landlord entries. This is to enable someone searching the publicly available information on the database to see which landlord entries are associated with offences and/or financial penalties or regulatory action, and to avoid any confusion where there may be landlords with similar names.
	Subsection (1)(c)(i) clarifies that regulations may be introduced that set out when an entry made under section 83 must be accessible to the public, which must not be before 21 days after the initial entry was created. Subsection 1(c)(ii) provides that the regulations may require local authorities to notify the landlord that such an entry has been made in order to give the landlord an opportunity to make the local housing authority aware of any errors in the entry within the 21 day period, before it is made public. Subsection (1)(c)(iii) indicates that regulations may also specify when such entries will no longer be able to be viewed by the public. Subsection (d) states that regulations may specify the form in which information must be made available by the database operator.
	Subsection (1)(d) indicates that regulations may stipulate the manner and form in which database information must be made available to the public.
	Subsection (2) requires the database operator to grant database access to all lead enforcement authorities, local housing authorities, local weights and measures authorities in England, mayoral combined authorities (as defined by section 107A(8) of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009) and the Greater London Authority.
	Subsection (3) requires the database operator to grant access to database information to the Secretary of State, where the Secretary of State is not themselves the operator.
Part 2: Residential landlord Chapter 3: The Private Rented Sector Database Section 86: Access to the database Effect