Part 3: National Underground Asset Register Section 56: National Underground Asset Register: England and Wales Section 106F: Providing information for purposes of regulations under section 106E
In developing and then operating the fees scheme described above, it is likely that the Secretary of State will need to consider a range of different types of information. New section 106F enables the Secretary of State to impose legally binding requirements on undertakers to provide such information for two main purposes.
	The Secretary of State may require information from undertakers in order to enable the fees scheme to be developed, or to inform decisions about changes that could be made to the scheme once it is up and running. For example, if a "tiered" approach of the type described above were to be adopted, specific information from undertakers could be required in order to determine how such tiers should be described. Subsection (1) enables the Secretary of State to make regulations for this purpose.
	Subsection (2) provides a second power to require information from undertakers. This can be used to request information relevant to more "operational" aspects of the fees scheme, once it has been set up through regulations made under section 106E(1). More specifically, information can be requested in order to ascertain whether a fee is payable by a person under the fees scheme and, if so, enable the amount of such fee to be calculated.
	In addition to requesting information, subsection (3) makes clear that such regulations can also require undertakers to update the Secretary of State about any changes to that information after it has been provided. Further, subsection (4) provides that such regulations may also set out when (and with what frequency) information is to be provided by undertakers, and the form and manner in which information is to be provided. The regulations can also set out exceptions to any requirements to provide information that the regulations imposed.